Sentence examples for might be spurious from inspiring English sources

The proposed contribution has therefore two goals: Firstly, to replicate the findings about the harmful effect of female long-distance commuting on partnership stability; secondly, to investigate in more detail whether the commuting-effect might be spurious.

In such a data set, some links may be unobserved, and some observed links might be spurious.

On the one hand, positive associations might be spurious.

Unfortunately, unless selection is conditioned only on this variable, this statement might be spurious.

The correlations found should be regarded cautiously since the study is small, and since some might be spurious.

Given the small number of patients reporting clinically relevant change which may have impacted for example the magnitude of the SRM, the point estimates might be spurious.

#If claims for pure economic loss in such cases were allowed, it might lead to countless claims, some of which may be spurious.

The trend could also be spurious.

If we had conducted the regression analysis with the variables in level form, the results might have been spurious.

True, the chairman of Phoney Wimbledon (hereinafter in Smallweed, Milton Keynes Wanderers) might have objected, on the grounds that calling their club "Real" might suggest that his was spurious.

Even more worrying are the politicians who glory in the fact that they don't like maths or don't know any science, and so can be persuaded that black is white by lobbyists with an agenda that might well be spurious, to say the least.