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Recent Examples of misclassify
Industries with high injury rates also drive up workers’ compensation insurance premiums, which can incentivize companies to misclassify workers as independent contractors and deny them workers’ compensation if they get injured on the job, the analysis said.
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Jenny Gathright, Washington Post, 18 June 2024
Construction companies sometimes misclassify their employees as independent contractors.
—Ames Alexander, Charlotte Observer, 14 May 2024
To evade customs duties, the actors would use false documents to either undervalue or misclassify the goods, and produce false invoices and transport documents to conceal the real destination of the goods.
—Glenn Taylor, Sourcing Journal, 3 Sep. 2019
The scientists note their attacks could make deep learning systems misclassify images up to 100 percent of the time, and that modified images were imperceptible from real ones to the human eye.
—IEEE Spectrum, 4 June 2018
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Jenny Gathright, Washington Post, 18 June 2024
Construction companies sometimes misclassify their employees as independent contractors.
—Ames Alexander, Charlotte Observer, 14 May 2024
To evade customs duties, the actors would use false documents to either undervalue or misclassify the goods, and produce false invoices and transport documents to conceal the real destination of the goods.
—Glenn Taylor, Sourcing Journal, 3 Sep. 2019
The scientists note their attacks could make deep learning systems misclassify images up to 100 percent of the time, and that modified images were imperceptible from real ones to the human eye.
—IEEE Spectrum, 4 June 2018
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Dutch mathematician Jacobus Verhoeff reported in 1969 that two errors—mistyping a single digit and swapping two neighboring digits of one’s card number—account for nearly 90 percent of all human input errors in practice.—
Jack Murtagh,
Scientific American,
12 Aug. 2025
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Correction: Arkansas' team ERA was initially mistyped and has been corrected.—
Matt Jones,
Arkansas Online,
7 Apr. 2025
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Her attorney, Jim Campbell, said Colorado is pointing to studies that lump together the kind of counseling Chiles wants to do with shock therapy and other aversive treatments that have been used in the past.—
Maureen Groppe,
USA Today,
5 Oct. 2025
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At issue is how such products might be structured and regulated — while prediction markets are considered futures products in the US, they’re often lumped in with gambling in other regions.—
Bloomberg,
Mercury News,
30 Sep. 2025
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