Sentence examples for misleading confidence from inspiring English sources

The word "antibiotic"—a Latinate term meaning "life-negating"—suggests a misleading confidence about how these chemicals work in nature.

In particular, the order-of-magnitude differences between non-neutral and neutral values of the parameters suggest that the good agreement between the neutral model and observations in the present case inspires a misleading confidence in the ability of the approach to describe vegetation diversity patterns.

In hindsight, many analysts said they believed that the drop in confidence was misleading and that the German economy, Europe's biggest, still had room to grow.

"This proposal fails to provide information grounded in science or sound policy, thus misleading consumers and eroding confidence in government," wrote Gerard Keegan, senior director of external and state affairs for CTIA, in a letter to Berkeley's city council.

However, in some cases considering only individual confidence intervals can be misleading.

In view of the skew typical of trial data (positive skew for costs, negative skew for outcomes), arithmetically calculated means and confidence intervals are generally misleading.

The prime minister has to be held to account for his misleading the public, so that people gain confidence in their government and their political leaders".

Since the distribution of might be slightly skewed (see example in Web Figure 6), the traditional way of using standard error to calculate confidence intervals (CI) could be misleading.

The results of this study will inform clinicians of which tests, or combination of tests, successfully reduce diagnostic uncertainty, which tests are misleading and how physical examination may affect the magnitude of the confidence the clinician feels about their diagnosis.

It misleads people into unrealistic confidence.

If the confidence intervals are too wide the reported parameter estimates may be misleading.