misclassification
- noun
- /ˌmɪsˌklæsɪfɪˈkeɪʃən/
- Formal
:
mala clasificación
- As noted earlier, the subjectivity of the decision to refer places minority students at high risk for premature labeling, misclassification, and inappropriate placement.
Examples
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Misclassification of disease status was minimized by the use of an accurate diagnostic test (RT-PCR) (22).
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This error takes many forms, such as misclassification of students not meeting eligibility criteria as LD (false positive classification error) or failing to classify students who otherwise do meet eligibility criteria (false negative classification error).
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Legally, she says, "just enforcing the law" against misclassification would help.
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This finding suggests that there may be substantial misclassification of risk based on self-reported age of housing.
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Such an illegal misclassification is used by employers to avoid paying costs for workers, such as payroll taxes, unemployment insurance, and health care contributions where mandated by state law.
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The household sector of the FA tries to separate out direct holdings from pension and other tax-preferred asset holdings, but any misclassification toward direct holdings will also bias up the numerator of the gross capitalization ratio.
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Hence the proliferation of scholarship and advocacy aimed at combating misclassification of employees as independent contractors and at expanding the definition of "employment," including the scope of "joint employment," so that it is harder for lead firms to escape the costs of complying with labor standards.
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Although a thorough treatment of this issue is outside the scope of this article, a brief discussion is relevant because current efforts to eliminate misclassification increase the possibility that gifted students with learning disabilities will be precluded from receiving services, thereby leading to the continuation of the incorrect assumption that exceptional academic ability and learning difficulties are mutually exclusive.
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The misclassification of employees as independent contractors can lead to significant tax penalties.
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Many workers face issues due to the misclassification of their employment status, affecting their rights and benefits.
Surface Forms
Morphology
misclassification = classification (transparent) = mis + class + ify + ation
The prefix 'mis-' clearly indicates an incorrect action applied to 'classification'.
Etymology
Misclassification comes from the prefix mis- meaning 'wrong' and classification, which is from class and classify meaning 'to put things into groups'. So a misclassification is a 'wrong grouping', for example calling a worker an independent contractor when they should be an employee, and that is why it can cause legal and tax problems.
