Global and local statistical measures of spatial clusters can be misleading without mapping [ 71, 72], which provides an excellent method of revealing potential anomalies in the data.
As with any presentation of evidence, it is easy to mislead with maps, intentionally or unintentionally, as described by Monmonier [ 51].
Moreover, there may be significant opportunity costs associated with regulatory and reimbursement decisions for new technologies informed by misleading findings from mapping studies.
The validation of single or few aspects of the Futures Map is misleading if the impacts on the other aspects of the Map are not taken into account.
One's imagination, bewitched and misled, creates illusory maps of the apparently familiar districts, maps in which the streets have their proper places and usual names but are provided with new and fictitious configurations by the inexhaustible inventiveness of the night".
Modern distribution maps are potentially misleading for a couple of important reasons: first and foremost, there has been climatic change such that areas of suitable tropical and subtropical climate with suitable wetland areas will have shifted dramatically over the past 20,000 years.
Because of this, caution is necessary to ensure that the maps are not misleading.
Like Harry Beck's 1931 Tube map, the logo is misleading.
