Sentence examples for thereby misleading from inspiring English sources

20 21 If studies of the diagnostic accuracy of depression screening tools that include patients who already have a diagnosis or are receiving treatment are included in systematic reviews and meta-analyses without adjustment for potential bias, these reviews could provide misleading accuracy estimates, thereby misleading calculations of risk-benefit by expert panels and, thus, clinicians.

The big news in the report, in case you missed it, is that Lehman, in the months before it went under, used accounting trickery to shift about fifty billion dollars off its balance sheet — an exercise that reduced the leverage ratios it reported, thereby misleading investors about its true financial condition.

This becomes more apparent by imagining that the circular cross section of the garden hose is shrunk ever smaller, below what can be seen with the naked eye, thereby misleading a casual observer into thinking the garden hose has only one dimension, its length.

The important edge site is blurred in the object; therefore, the boundaries become obscure, thereby misleading the curve deforming.

All are imperfect, and thereby misleading, copies of material things, which are themselves, of course, merely imperfect instantiations of the eternal forms, the proper objects of philosophic enquiry.

Only the major errors were evaluated as these errors tend to compromise statistical data, thereby misleading health policy planners and epidemiologists.

A decision by Egan-Jones, or any ratings firm, to misstate information to gain registration and thereby mislead those who rely on the ratings is indeed a troubling legal violation.

What is most remarkable about prewar U.S. intelligence on Iraq is not that it got things wrong and thereby misled policymakers; it is that it played so small a role in one of the most important U.S. policy decisions in recent decades.

An understanding of the manipulative power of metaphor is not new to rhetoricians; as John Locke (2004) observed in 1698, "…all the artificial and figurative application of words eloquence hath invented, are for nothing else but to insinuate wrong ideas, move the passions, and thereby mislead the judgment and so, indeed, are perfect cheats".

Second, as the use of digital image editing applications has become more common, it has become easier for authors to make alterations to digital graphics that either intentionally or unintentionally could modify data presented in digital images and thereby mislead readers.

However, traditional approaches for modelling geological domains and geostatistical estimation provide smoothed representations of the pertinent deposit attributes, ignore spatial variability and, thereby, can mislead downstream decisions.