mismeasurement

The wage and income data are what seem out of line, perhaps because of mismeasurement of the cost of living.

Baker vs. Summers, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty 2009

"It really is a mismeasurement of productivity," says

Portion of Recent Gains Could Be an Illusion 2010

Smaller sites, though, say that mismeasurement of their traffic could cost them when advertisers seeking a broad reach dismiss them because of their seemingly paltry audience sizes.

Dot-Complicated: Measuring Traffic on the Web Carl Bialik 2010

The "specialty vs. general" categorization scheme is a faulty distinction that leads to serious misunderstanding and mismeasurement.

Disrupting The Hospital Business Model Clayton M. Christensen 2009

The telegenic Nancy Pfotenhauer is also a former Washington lobbyist for Koch Industries whose Koch Oil subsidiary was once cited by a Senate Committee as "the most dramatic example of an oil company stealing by deliberate mismeasurement and fraudulent reporting."

Menachem Rosensaft: Meet John McCain's Pals 2008

After correcting for this mismeasurement, the "increase" in storm intensity since the 1970s nearly disappears.

Political Diary 2008

To see what these tasks are, consider the question how do we decide whether a divergence from a long run relative frequency prediction about fitness differences is a matter of drift, a disconfirmation of the hypothesis of natural selection or a reflection of a mismeasurement of fitness differences to begin with?

Fitness Rosenberg, Alexander 2008

It should be no surprise that taxpayers faced with this overinclusion of value in the tax base have developed transactions that have strained the rules associated with accounting for liabilities, now that there are so many more unaccrued liabilities, and the potential for so much more mismeasurement.

November 2005 2005

It should be no surprise that taxpayers faced with this overinclusion of value in the tax base have developed transactions that have strained the rules associated with accounting for liabilities, now that there are so many more unaccrued liabilities, and the potential for so much more mismeasurement.

Crane on Liabilities and the Need to Keep the Income Tax Base Closed 2005

The risk of cognitive mismeasurement is much greater when you are not even allowed to use the most accurate test measures available.

More on "Should we ignore the racial gap in IQ?" Steve Sailer 2005