spuriously
- adverb
- /ˈspjʊəriəsli/
:
falsamente
- Reporting only the best results spuriously inflates accuracy.
- spuriously inflated
- spuriously significant results
- spuriously low correlations
Examples
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Analyzing dependent data with conventional statistical tests could lead to an underestimation of standard errors and hence to spuriously significant results (Snijders & Bosker, 1999).
Academic text (2008) -
Unless spatial autocorrelation in model residuals is accounted for, sample sizes tend to be spuriously inflated, and relationships among variables may falsely appear statistically significant (a type I error).
Academic text (2013) -
There are two ways in which transport costs could cause spuriously low correlations.
Academic text (1991) -
Second, difference-score effects can be spuriously influenced by correlation with raw scores.
Academic text (1997) -
Surprisingly, but perhaps spuriously, the variables included in the model have the greatest explanatory power for war-torn Iran and Iraq.
Academic text (1991) -
It might widen people's views of society, but only spuriously so, through a flattening of the social and cultural landscape.
Academic text (1990) -
If a rater effect induces bias, which in turn results in spuriously high ratings related to the ethnicity of the child, it is a potentially serious problem.
Academic text (2001) -
Reliance on teachers to rate student behavior and student achievement is another important limitation, as using teachers to provide both attention and achievement ratings may have spuriously inflated the relationship between these variables.
Academic text (2004) -
The study's conclusions were made spuriously, lacking solid evidence to support them.
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She claimed to have expertise in several areas, but her knowledge was revealed to be spuriously acquired.
Synonyms
83
3.5
In a way that is not true or correct
10
7.5
In a dishonest way to trick someone to get money or other things
2
6.8
In a way not allowed by law or rules
In a way that seems true but is actually false
Antonyms
How False
10
7.5
16
5.7
83
3.5
3
6.7
43
3.8
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Spuriously comes from the adjective spurious, which traces back to the Latin word spurius meaning 'not legitimate' or 'false' and was once used about children thought not to have their real father. So, to do something spuriously is to do it in a false or fake way, not genuinely.