misleading information

collocation in English

meanings of misleadingand information

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misleading
adjective
uk /ˌmɪsˈliː.dɪŋ/ us /ˌmɪsˈliː.dɪŋ/
causing someone to believe something that is ...
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information
noun[U]
uk /ˌɪn.fəˈmeɪ.ʃən/ us /ˌɪn.fɚˈmeɪ.ʃən/
facts about a situation, person, ...
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Examples of misleading information

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That is, maternal information may be designed to inform maternally related kin or suppress misleadinginformation provided by paternal genes.
For example, they may simply parrot an interviewer's words that contain misleadinginformation and this might become incorporated into memory.
Measuring and modelling patient flows the average stay of groups of patients gives misleadinginformation.
The homogenization temperatures determined from such two-phase inclusions would yield misleading information, but the salinity measurements from their cooling behaviour are unaffected.
Without such an analysis, results derived using assumptions violated because of rounding errors are numerically useless, since they can give misleadinginformation.
In particular, the matrix eigenvalues may in the nonnormal case give misleadinginformation about the convergence behaviour.
This absence provides policy-makers with incomprehensive or even misleadinginformation to guide allocation decisions in health.
This places a premium on the reliability of information, and maternal genes may benefit from suppressing misleadinginformation transmitted between sibs.
The bilingual advantage, therefore, is in the ability to control attention when there is misleadinginformation.
But the tendency to equate propaganda with misleadinginformation has also been noticeable in more serious academic studies.
Since intervals between 'dates' or 'visits' can last from a few days to more than one week, highly misleadinginformation has been transmitted.
This is an especially thorny issue in the experimental literature examining children's resistance to misleadinginformation (see below).
For family studies the lower estimates of lifetime prevalence in relatives may provide encouraging but misleadinginformation for clinicians and patients.
There are many situations in which this index provides misleadinginformation concerning the state of the myocardium, justifying the use of loadindependent indices of contractility.
Bias from those imparting information cannot be excluded, and patient choices could be made on the basis of inaccurate or misleadinginformation.
The tasks in the former group include misleadinginformation, making them high in their demand for control of attention.
After this we discuss how various forms of psychopathology may affect children's memory and resistance to misleadinginformation.
It would be wrong to publish misleadinginformation.
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