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For Miller, those differing adjustments cause lots of variability both across different polls, and even in the same surveys over time, rendering them highly unreliable guides to which candidates lead or trail by what margin.
HOW A DATA SCIENTIST BEAT THE POLLS BY NAILING THE GEORGIA SENATE RACESHAWN TULLYJANUARY 9, 2021FORTUNERight now, facial recognition is considered too unreliable to be used as evidence anywhere.
FACIAL RECOGNITION STILL CAN’T PROVE SOMEONE’S IDENTITYSTAN HORACZEKJANUARY 8, 2021POPULAR-SCIENCEHowever, strict browser privacy settings and AdBlocks have made this method increasingly unreliable.
WHAT AFFILIATE MARKETERS HAVE MISSED ABOUT GOOGLE ANALYTICSLAURENT MALKAJANUARY 5, 2021SEARCH ENGINE WATCHSelf-reported measures of alcohol and cigarette consumption can be unreliable.
STUDY: SMOKING BANS SAVED COUNTLESS LIVES — COULD THEY HAVE INCREASED DRUNK DRIVING?JERUSALEM DEMSASDECEMBER 24, 2020VOXAlthough accuracy increases in the weeks after infection, many of the early antibody tests were inconsistent and unreliable.
THE STATE OF COVID-19 TESTING IN THE USTARA SANTORADECEMBER 9, 2020POPULAR-SCIENCEThey were utterly unreliable, yet their tale-bearing in Delhi might bring instant disaster to Malcolm and his native comrade.
THE RED YEARLOUIS TRACYBut that man E., whom I found living in the same house with Nold, impressed me as rather unreliable.
PRISON MEMOIRS OF AN ANARCHISTALEXANDER BERKMANShe arrived, indeed, with lungs fairly collapsed and her heart entirely unreliable.
THE AMAZING INTERLUDEMARY ROBERTS RINEHARTAbner Levens was locked in the unreliable jail of Coldriver village, and a watch placed over him.
SCATTERGOOD BAINESCLARENCE BUDINGTON KELLANDBut an unreliable boy at our school matched this history from the unwritten archives of his vulgar relatives.
PAPERS FROM OVERLOOK-HOUSECASPER ALMOREWORDS RELATED TO UNRELIABLE
- committing perjury
- deceitful
- deceptive
- delusive
- delusory
- dissembling
- dissimulating
- double-crossing
- double-dealing
- equivocating
- false
- falsifying
- fibbing
- forsworn
- guileful
- inventing
- mendacious
- misleading
- misrepresenting
- misstating
- perfidious
- perjured
- prevaricating
- shifty
- treacherous
- tricky
- two-faced
- two-timing
- unreliable
- untruthful
- wrong
- Pecksniffian
- affected
- artificial
- assuming
- bland
- canting
- captious
- caviling
- deceptive
- deluding
- dissembling
- double
- double-dealing
- duplicitous
- faithless
- false
- feigning
- fishy
- fraudulent
- glib
- hollow
- insincere
- jivey
- left-handed
- lying
- moralistic
- oily
- pharisaical
- phony
- pietistic
- pious
- sanctimonious
- self-righteous
- smooth
- smooth-spoken
- smooth-tongued
- snide
- specious
- spurious
- two-faced
- unctuous
- unnatural
- unreliable
- Pecksniffian
- affected
- artificial
- assuming
- bland
- canting
- captious
- caviling
- deceptive
- deluding
- dissembling
- double
- double-dealing
- duplicitous
- faithless
- false
- feigning
- fishy
- fraudulent
- glib
- hollow
- insincere
- jivey
- left-handed
- lying
- moralistic
- oily
- pharisaic
- phony
- pietistic
- pious
- sanctimonious
- self-righteous
- smooth
- smooth-spoken
- smooth-tongued
- snide
- specious
- spurious
- two-faced
- unctuous
- unnatural
- unreliable
- ambiguous
- borderline
- chancy
- contingent
- dangerous
- delicate
- dicey
- dubious
- dynamite
- equivocal
- hairy
- hanging by a thread
- hazardous
- iffy
- impugnable
- indecisive
- insecure
- loaded
- on thin ice
- open
- out on a limb
- perilous
- problematic
- risky
- rocky
- rugged
- sensitive
- shaky
- slippery
- ticklish
- touch and go
- touchy
- uncertain
- unhealthy
- unreliable
- unsafe
- unsettled
- unstable
- unsteady
- unsure
- ambiguous
- apocryphal
- arguable
- contingent
- controversial
- controvertible
- cryptic
- debatable
- disputable
- dubious
- dubitable
- enigmatic
- equivocal
- fishy
- hard to believe
- hypothetical
- iffy
- indecisive
- indefinite
- indeterminate
- moot
- mysterious
- obscure
- occult
- open to doubt
- open to question
- oracular
- paradoxical
- problematic
- problematical
- provisional
- shady
- suspect
- suspicious
- unconfirmed
- undefined
- under advisement
- under examination
- unproven
- unreliable
- unsettled
- vague
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