Sentence examples for potentially perverse from inspiring English sources
It suggests that FAA reliability assessments serve a useful regulatory purpose by couching the qualitative work of engineers and regulators in an idiom of calculative objectivity, but cautions that this comes with potentially perverse consequences.
However, for incentive based regulation to deliver the desired outcomes it needs to be implemented in a comprehensive manner (both in terms of substance and process), or at least in a considered way, with any deviations from standard approaches understood in terms of the potentially perverse impacts or incentives that might arise.
Conversely, affirmative action policies would potentially have the perverse effect of undermining diversity in the sciences if net peer effects are negative in university-level STEM courses.
Prof John Appleby, chief economist at the King's Fund health thinktank, said the fines were perverse and potentially unfair on certain trusts.
Third, they create perverse incentives that potentially represent an obstacle to health policy [ 10, 16, 17].
All of this combined to create a vicious cycle where investors expect hyper-growth curves, and entrepreneurs must attain this growth at any cost — or die — thereby creating a perverse incentive to chase potentially inorganic growth in the short-term for the chance to survive.
Feeling good about planting seed knowing that you're potentially sending it to its doom is, I admit, slightly perverse.
And that was perverse pop counterintuition at its best — just as strong and potentially world-beating as what might be its opposite, the functional, party-hard surfaces of Swedish House Mafia's techno.
On purpose or not, the council's criteria have set up a perverse incentive for such spires to rise atop supertall structures while intentionally forgoing potentially beneficial functions.
