Sentence examples for would be spurious from inspiring English sources

She, by the way, also commits suicide, after an unhappy life and a short struggle with cancer; but it would be spurious to point out that all the women in this novel meet their deaths as victims.

The observed correlation would be spurious if acidity was the main factor and Fe was correlated with acidity.

The curio species did exhibit a significant linear regression of year vs. number landed (statistical details shown in Table 1), but if the p-value is protected for multiple comparisons (6 total ecosystem service categories, protected p = 0.008), then this result would be spurious.

In light of the two facts, further (functional) characterization of the predicted sRNAs would be spurious.

However, because blood smears were not available for an independent external re-examination, individual comparisons between microscopy and molecular results would be spurious.

If aspirin use were associated with reduced survival following diagnosis, the proportion of aspirin users among case survivors would be lower than among controls, leading to an apparent inverse association between aspirin use and risk of lung cancer that would be spurious.

While several other studies have shown examples of empirically validated gene:drug associations nominated in similar analyses, we wanted to assess our overall confidence in the likelihood that significant correlations would not be spurious false positives.

Paul Broadbent, who is now the head of the Gangmasters Licensing Authority, said: "It would be wholly spurious and wrong to say that I did not support allegations or investigations into child sexual exploitation in Sheffield.

The counter-argument, held by a number of BP investors, is that BP would be giving spurious respectability to a company, Rosneft, with opaque and questionable governance, and that BP will have no meaningful influence over Rosneft, whether the stake is bigger or smaller.

They reasoned that refusing the tests would mean there would be no spurious data for test-based teacher evaluations.

Slightly more than twice as many would be considered spurious in retrospect on the basis of the MA results.