Sentence examples for spurious statistics from inspiring English sources
They put in a lot of spurious statistics.
With each side shroud-waving, the juniors claim the imposed contract "puts patients at risk", while Jeremy Hunt, the health secretary, rattles spurious statistics on weekend death rates.
But, you know, when life gives you lemons, you've just got to go ahead and invoke a bloody apocalypse, backed with some spurious statistics.
It's a lesson that has not been lost on advertisers, many of whom are starting to see the web as a black hole of fraudulent views, spurious statistics (three seconds for a "view") and, more recently, ad blocking software.
Coupled with small effect size estimates and test statistics inflated by massive sample sizes, this strongly suggests spurious statistical significance as an outcome of Type I error.
The early genealogical studies were criticized on the grounds that the downward trend in the death rate (attributable generally to scientific advancements) introduced a spurious correlation in statistics derived from records extending over long periods of time.
Those numbers, argue people who believe in a sexed up Japan, have been blown out of proportion by the spurious use of statistics on dating, marriage, and childbirth to prop up the notion of endemic abstinence.
Its author, sociologist Peter Saunders, said The Spirit Level could "contaminate an important area of political debate with wonky statistics and spurious correlations... Very little of Wilkinson and Pickett's statistical evidence actually stands up, and their causal argument is full of holes".
Hiding behind statistics or spurious list-making, we shy away from reality, afraid of the consequences of living life in any other way.
Moreover, the use of inappropriate statistics signaled spurious "significance" in several instances.
However, our extensive use of this assembly has revealed problems with gene models in or near assembly gaps, misassemblies encountered during the course of chromosome walks, and spurious spikes of differentiation statistics near gap and scaffold edges.
