misclassification
Americannoun
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Salt substitute use was self-reported, which may have led to underreporting or misclassification.
From Science Daily • Mar. 31, 2026
Issues related to racial misclassification in public records persist across the entire life course for AI/AN individuals, from birth to early childhood interventions to chronic disease and death.
From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 18, 2025
According to the paper, the matter relates to misclassification of staff and claims that inflated rates were being charged for them.
From BBC • May 25, 2025
But the authors concluded this has led to the misclassification of many deaths as due to pregnancy when they were in fact incidental to it.
From Science Magazine • Mar. 18, 2024
A late instance of an amusing misclassification is reported from Germany.
From Literary Blunders by Wheatley, Henry Benjamin
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