Sentence examples for prone to confusing from inspiring English sources

The scientific world has largely written off Mr. Dreyfus as a well-intentioned oddball prone to confusing subjective impressions with scientific evidence.

It was thought that only dyslexic children were prone to confusing "b" and "d", and "p" and "q", and occasionally writing their names back-to-front, but Dr Dehaene has found that all children make this error.He suggests the error happens because when learning to read children first have to unlearn that older survival skill.

We're especially prone to confusing correlation and causation.

Internal segment size based approaches are especially prone to confusing such events with insertions or deletions of the same effective length.

Reagan was dreamy, prone to confuse movies with real life, capable of forgetting the names of his cabinet members; Bush is inarticulate, likely to lose his place midthought and inclined to lowbrow bluster.

The White House, ever prone to confuse what is good for chief executives with what is good for the economy, regards the Sarbanes bill as too tough (see article).On independent directors, what the president said this week was better.

Last week, a former Cigna executive warned at a Senate hearing on health insurance that lawmakers should be careful about the role they gave private insurers in any new system, saying the companies were too prone to "confuse their customers and dump the sick".

Also, the design of many evolutionary trees is still prone to confuse the audience.

If used in this style, the image is only updated when the structure has really changed, and there is no risk of an accumulating backlog of delayed image updates which are prone to confuse a user when they arrive late.

Other elements in the artwork are prone to confuse, whether because they have dual meanings or, as with the two-fingered gesture of the Buddha's right hand, because meanings change across centuries and cultures.

The largely untested assumption that images are especially prone to being confused with having perceived an event was thus supported, at least in comparison with the main alternative form of representation verbal description.