No more relying on small, potentially unrepresentative samples and misleading averages.
Instrument characteristics or limitations must be considered or they can contradict these simplified assumptions, resulting in misleading averages.
Stereotypes are misleading: on average Germans, for instance, rate pain for similar conditions worse than Spaniards or Italians do.In this section Death from afar Pick a book Grim and bear it ReprintsSuch comparisons are rare, but a global study called Pain Out is trying to make them more systematic.
While there's nothing factually wrong with that title (presumably, I don't have my iPad thermometer handy), it is misleading for average consumers — you know, Consumer Reports core audience.
Cost data and cost-effectiveness data are frequently skewed and as a result, economic evaluation can be misleading if average costs are skewed by extreme outliers.
11 (bottom panel, assessment misled by average (morning) BG and HGI) with poor BG control (see also Table 4 for exactly computed measures).
On average, a tornado is on the ground for about 15 minutes, but this value is misleading because the average is heavily weighted by the rare but long-lived violent tornadoes.
The mailing was deemed "misleading to the average voter" and unfair by the Westchester County Fair Campaign Practices Committee, a local watchdog organization.
Union officials say those figures are misleading and put average annual wages at $75,000 before benefits — still far more than most union members earn.
A month later, the state's Health Care Complaints Commission also issued a formal warning about the AVN after finding its information on vaccinations was "misleading to the average reader because it is either incorrect, inaccurately represented or because it has been taken out of context".
