| Many things can happen in a single study that can spuriously give rise to a positive result. |
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| Thus, comparisons of treated patients with not treated patients may spuriously imply that drug treatments are actually harmful. |
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| They defend their actions by spuriously claiming that a piece of amenity in the area will be bulldozed. |
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| It has recently come to my attention that you have been spuriously promising your vast readership pictures of young dolly songbirds in a state of total undress. |
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| Furthermore, there are many possible statistical biases that may spuriously inflate benefit. |
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| For example, a very lengthy test can spuriously inflate the reliability coefficient. |
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| Unfortunately, this measure often yields spuriously high values because it does not take into account chance agreements that occur from guessing. |
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| A second unrelated station shutdown occurred on November 16, 2007 when a shutdown system channel spuriously actuated while another shutdown system channel was undergoing routine maintenance. |
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| For this reason, the percentage of agreement often yields spuriously high values especially when assessing the less stringent levels of agreement. |
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| Second, a year later the minister also brings back funding for wind power and renewable energy, having first spuriously stated that it was wasteful spending and that it was not achieving its targets. |
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| Even when things were rosy, such spuriously accurate figures were of less use than a description of how the main factors affecting a business could change. |
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| The date may be spuriously precise, but the danger is there. |
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| Unfortunately for many pupils, some schools steer them away from academic subjects and towards vocational ones, which are spuriously treated as equivalent by organisations that compile school league tables. |
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| He held that settlement had only been made out on a fine balance, and its quality had been marred by the fact that entry had been obtained spuriously and that there were risks it would not be permitted to continue. |
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| When I spuriously suggested that the great physicist, Stephen Hawking, would not qualify as disabled, one of your bureaucrats had the audacity to agree. |
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| An ineffective new treatment would spuriously appear to be superior merely because a 'placebo effect' appears only in the experimental drug treatment arm. |
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| Charley badge spuriously featuring knights chainmail But it didn''t seem to matter. |
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| Check that the electronic systems work as advertised as there have been a few minor owner grumbles about warning lights spuriously appearing and then disappearing. |
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| It was spuriously invented by Russian President Vladimir Putin to give him an excuse to occupy Crimea and warn Ukraine not to get too close to the European Union. |
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| Some will use this terrible film to pressure for change, others will simply be spuriously curious, a worse group of sickos will see it as part of the cult for snuff movies. |
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