A study into inappropriate A&E attendance in the South Central region, for example, found that a quarter of patients were misdirected by staff who had limited knowledge of local alternatives to the A&E route.
Abigail Thernstrom, the co-author of "America in Black and White Simonon & Schuster, 1997) points out that some polls show college-educated black people are more likely to believe mad conspiracy theories than less well-educated blacks.The saddest thing about Mr Sharpton is that his talents and his mouth are misdirected.
India's food subsidies, for example, are often misdirected.
Yet the outcome was probably inevitable, since the West's efforts were badly misdirected.
Many of the regimes of the Middle East face opposition on their own streets from their own discontented people and from violent groups who will be quick to exploit it if the government is seen to back an American response that goes wrong or is considered to have been misdirected.
Their anger is frequently misdirected at police, medical staff and friends.
Frustrating, to be sure, but the violent outbursts look misdirected and wildly out of proportion.(Photo credit: AP).
However, the structures for collecting and distributing money to combat AIDS are now well established, and accurate data are crucial if that money is not to be misdirected.
Their turnarounds took that long.Analysts say that Unilever's main problems are too little (and misdirected) advertising; unrealistic performance targets; some unattractive products; and a lack of innovation.
Policies were poor, execution dreadful and leadership misdirected, but each initiative seemed to create a centripetal force, as everyone looked toward Beijing to see how to march forward (or avoid being trampled).
Among his complaints: holding the trial in Enron's home town, Houston, meant the jury was biased against him; prosecutors used threats of prosecution as co-conspirators to scare potentially sympathetic witnesses from testifying in his favour; and the judge misdirected the jury.
