Sentence examples for probably spurious from inspiring English sources

According to a (probably spurious) film-making legend, Polanski, having never before adapted a novel, didn't realise he was allowed to make changes, with the result that his screenplay is remarkably faithful to Levin's book.

Four and a half years after Russia imposed an import ban on Georgian wine (on probably spurious health grounds), forcing vintners to up their game in a bid to attract new customers, last week President Mikhail Saakashvili thanked Vladimir Putin for helping to make Georgian wine even better.He had a point.

Scientists say that even though some of these findings are probably spurious — if you dig around in data, you will eventually find correlations just by chance — other effects are very likely real, triggered not by the alignment of the planets but by exposures during prenatal and early postnatal lives.

However, detailed analysis suggested that this latter association was also probably spurious.

'No-AIDS' life expectancy similarly flattens off and also declines beyond 2000 2005, but both declines are probably spurious.

Examples "Finally we estimated the two-way interaction between each combination of the 19 variants (171 combinations) (Supplementary Table [not shown]) and the result demonstrated few, probably spurious, associations (P < 0.05).

Unfortunately, we observed that a few of these families were enormous, heterogeneous groupings that, in a significant number of cases, consisted of two or more groups of highly-connected proteins linked by a few probably-spurious edges.

And he remains the metaphorical guardian of the cloth cap, a man whose words carry an unquantifiable, and quite probably entirely spurious, authenticity.

For Bayesian trees, a moderate relationship exists (y = −0.0634x+0.0437, r2 = 0.396, P<0.05), but this is probably a spurious result stemming from two artifacts –this method's sensitivity even when few outgroups are included, and the lack in this subset of trees with a high proportion of outgroups.

Consumption of rodents was associated with a borderline significant protective effect, which was probably a spurious association.

Statistical analyses highlighted that the maternally inherited allele at the IGF2 locus had a significant effect but simulation studies showed that this is probably a spurious effect due to the segregation of the second QTL.