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After the decision in Callow, compliance programs would be wise to focus on the distinction between actively misleading conduct and innocent non-disclosure in contractual performance as well.

Worse, the similar notation for partial derivatives; e.g. $\frac{\partial z}{\partial x}$ has its own quirks and problems that make it actively misleading to think of it as a ratio of ${\partial z}$ to ${\partial x}$; a particular theorem of note is that $$ \frac{\partial y}{\partial x} \frac{\partial z}{\partial y} \frac{\partial x}{\partial z} = -1$$

Might they be actively misleading readers?

The most pervasive myth about transgender people — and the one myth that underpins much of the discrimination they face — is that they’re somehow confused or actively misleading others by identifying with a gender different from the one assigned to them at birth.

'Active share' debate actively misleading warns Hermes

Please, try to not be actively misleading.

Ridge also concludes that the case for liability is strongest in scenario (3), when the silence may be considered to be actively misleading.

Might they be actively misleading readers?

The Court also held that Merit’s conduct amounted to lying and actively misleading NEP, as members of the Merit Deal Team had knowledge of issues that were not disclosed on Schedule D. As one example of actively misleading conduct, the Court highlighted D-13 notice that Merit received before the Closing in which the regulator had flagged 67 wells for suspension.

Everything else is a waste of time, visual space, and is actively misleading.

It also works perfectly well as a large sample test; some books and websites are actively misleading on this point, some directly claiming it's not a large sample test (indeed I found another as I was writing this answer).

In my opinion, you should not use an ordinary scatterplot of the two variables --- at best it is worthless, and at worst it is actively misleading.

Everything else is a waste of time, visual space, and is actively misleading.

It is distinct from lies of omission in that it involves actively misleading targets rather than passively omitting to share relevant information.

The R help is, unfortunately, less than clear -- even actively misleading.

The duty of good faith and honest contractual performance does not just preclude actively misleading conduct, it also precludes half-truths, omissions and silence, which mislead the other party.

At worst formalizing sampling intensity in terms of probability theory actively misleads about nature of sample size and population size.

If the government believes you’re actively misleading your income or avoiding paying taxes, the first step often includes an audit — this is when tax crimes are most likely to be found.

Your plot -- although not actively misleading -- nevertheless doesn't do justice to all the fine structure of your data.

Your histogram is both not very informative and actively misleading, so it helped lead me astray.

I no longer believe assessing point forecasts using different error measures is useful. To the contrary, I believe it's actively misleading.

We find that M. Castro acted dishonestly in respect of claimants by remaining silent about what had happened to their settlement funds when they asked about those funds and by actively misleading claimants about the status and safety of those funds, given that a reasonable amount of due diligence on his part might well have revealed the fate of the funds.

Prohibiting and penalizing deliberate deceit is also aimed at furthering the objective of preventing HIV transmission through the deterrent effect (such as it may be) of threatening punishment for actively misleading partners to secure 'consent' for risky activity.

These claims were so extreme that that were actively misleading: e.g., "The present results represent the most important findings in personality psychology to date."

Your plot -- although not actively misleading -- nevertheless doesn't do justice to all the fine structure of your data.

In fact, they represent such an "overselling" of the manuscript's findings that they are actively misleading.

If you just write some consecutive paragraphs of text and put a bullet point in front of every one of them, you are actively misleading me, because your layout tells me I can skip around, while the content should be read in order.

However this is at best an oversimplification and at worst actively misleading.

However this is at best an oversimplification and at worst actively misleading.

Tesla 'full self-driving' comes under fire: 'This is actively misleading people'

Indentation is normally used to reflect flow of control and (sometimes) continuation of the same statement). Indentation like this: [...] ..is not useful (and can be actively misleading).

Oh, it's also strange (to the point of being actively misleading) that first returns the tail of the list and last returns the head of the list.

The name bin_digits is actively misleading: it does not contain the binary digits.

This one was, for me, a good lesson in software testing: I had to treat the xindy program almost as a black-box, because its documentation is terrible and even actively misleading.

If you use training data to estimate the performance the result is worse than useless, it's actively misleading.

I'm looking for a word which implies "actively misleading" (as in lying); examples might be a basketball player faking left (in order to make his guard shift left, so he can go around to the right) or generally faking out.

Agree with other answers that updating the locations of prior employers isn't needed, and I'll add that in some cases it could be actively misleading.

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