Sentences with phrase «misleading than useful»

His graphs are usually picked to be so geographically constrained or qualified (hence called «cherries») that they are essentially more misleading than useful.

Not exact matches

We think quantitative cost - effectiveness estimates are often useful as factors in charity evaluations, but we are concerned that assigning specific figures can be misleading and appear to be more important in our evaluation than we intended.

In a letter to the Social Security trustees in December 2003, the American Academy of Actuaries, the leading professional organization of actuaries, warned that infinite - horizon projections «provide little if any useful information about the program's long - term finances and indeed are likely to mislead anyone lacking technical expertise in the demographic, economic, and actuarial aspects of the program's finances into believing that the program is in far worse financial shape than is actually indicated».

Presumably if we did a 40 year smoothing on the temperature record of the last 100 years it would show a lot less variation than when we show the data in an annual form — but would it mean missing out a lot of the useful information and giving a misleading impression?