misfilter
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- Rhymes: -ɪltə(ɹ)
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misfilter (third-person singular simple present misfilters, present participle misfiltering, simple past and past participle misfiltered)
- To filter incorrectly.
- 1962, Benjamin Balinsky, The Selection Interview: Essentials for Management, page 8:
- You have to listen and view objectively in order not to misfilter the interviewee's responses.
- 1996, Daniel Clement Dennett, Darwin's Dangerous Idea: Evolution and the Meaning of Life, page 403:
- Like the misguided fear among evolutionists that the Badwin Effect commits the sin of Lamarckism, and Darwin's own precipitous flight from Catastrophism, the indiscriminate rejection of anything that smacks of behaviorism by the "thoroughly modern mentalists" (Fodor 1980) is an instance of misfiltered memes.
- 2002, Leon Katz, Classical Monologues from Aeschylus to Bernard Shaw, page xx:
- We have no other filters for screening the truth of being, and the misfiltering of that truth is permanent.
- 2004, Robert M. Kaplan, “Behavior As the central Outcome in Health Care”, in William D. Marelich, Dr Jeff S Erger, editors, The Social Psychology of Health: Essays and Readings, page 79:
- For example, elevated levels of protein in urine suggest that the kidneys are misfiltering and removing some proteins that the body needs.
- 2004, Proceedings of the 2004 ACM SIGCOMM Internet Measurement Conference, page 265:
- As cataloged in grisly empirical detail in [ 22 ] , packet filters can also record packets more than once (with different timestamps for the different copies), reorder the sequencing of packets (again, the timestamps do not reveal the reordering), fail to report dropped packets, falsely report dropped packets when in fact no drops occurred, and misfilter ( making incorrect decisions on which packets match the filter).
- 2019, Janelle Shane, You Look Like a Thing and I Love You:
- The onslaught of spam is a problem that can be nuanced and ever-changing, so it's a tricky one for AI, but on the other hand, most of us are willing to put up with the occasional misfiltered message if it means our inboxes are mostly clear.