Sentence examples for spurious leads from inspiring English sources
The interrogations resulted in generally useless information where detainees unsurprisingly made stuff up to try to end the torture, which in turn lead to a waste of security resources as U.S. agents followed up spurious leads including, for example, that African-American Muslim converts were being recruited for terrorism in Montana (p.92).
However, it remains unclear whether the associations were spurious or led to sequence specific chromatin regulation.
A spurious association between lead and risk of PD could result if lead is associated with duration of survival with PD.
Children's court president Michael Shanahan last month criticised Carmody's "spurious" advice that led to the government stripping juveniles' right to a speedy appeal, saying it likely meant children were serving excessive time in detention.
That's important, because scientists determine evolutionary relationships by comparing such features, or characters, and spurious connections can lead them astray.
A key consideration in AM is population structure, which may cause spurious correlations and lead to an elevated false-positive rate [ 6, 7].
For example, inappropriate pulse artefact correction may lead to spurious delta/theta activity, while inappropriate gradient artefact correction may lead to spurious high-frequency activity.
The latter tends to over-correct current model states and leads to spurious peaks and oscillations in discharge forecasts.
Acoustical oscillations can induce a rotation of a turbine flow meter in the absence of main flow, which leads to spurious counts.
A persistent problem in performing TERS on biological samples is the contamination of TERS probes with the sample molecules, which often leads to spurious results.
