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distorted impression

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See: misestimation


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Hitting a horse 18 times is, on the face of it, hard to defend, but one senior and distinctly level-headed member of the weighing room rang me late in the afternoon to insist that the number of times the horse was hit gave a distorted impression of the severity of the offence and that a very long ban would be out of proportion to it.
But adding in the idea that the population of Mozambique is overwhelmingly rural (68 percent according to an August 2006 estimate by the Population Reference Bureau) the estimate gives a wildly distorted impression of the labor situation in the country.
That leaves a distorted impression of management, which has had a corrupting influence on its practice.
 
 
 
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