incorrectly attribute

Frequency: 6.88.1 per million words

To wrongly assign a cause or quality to something.

incorrectlyADVERB + VERB

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attribute

Examples (10)

  • Many people incorrectly attribute the success of the project to luck.
  • The scientists incorrectly attributed the observed phenomenon to a known variable.
  • She often incorrectly attributes every minor setback to external factors.
  • It's easy to incorrectly attribute a person's behavior to their personality rather than circumstances.
  • Historians sometimes incorrectly attribute certain events to a single cause.
  • The report might incorrectly attribute the market downturn to recent policy changes.
  • We must be careful not to incorrectly attribute motives to others.
  • Often, people incorrectly attribute correlation with causation.
  • He had a tendency to incorrectly attribute his own mistakes to others.
  • The study was criticized for incorrectly attributing the results to a faulty methodology.