overreporting

Dechert wonders if people are now at risk of "overreporting", and Shepherd tells him it's too early to conclude that, and she also isn't sure how Canada measures up to other countries.

Macleans.ca 2009

There was a theory, briefly, that perhaps women were healthier than men based on a statistical illusion, which had to do with an overreporting of dead male relations over female ones.

Global Voices in English » Harvard Forum: ICT4D and, and, and 2009

Do you realize the amount of overreporting that might have happened if the fraternity brothers of Kevin (participant, say, 582) realized what he was doing?

Dirty talk? New sex survey's surprising stats Alexandra Petri 2010

And they say overreporting snow does them no good if disgruntled skiers and riders find less snow than expected.

Report: Ski resorts exaggerate snowfall totals 2010

These days, as we run around frantically copulating and overreporting, we tend to forget that.

Sex surveys, honor, and Brandon Davies's girlfriend 2011

And even assuming no overreporting whatsoever, there are still anywhere from 20 to 60 percent of Americans who aren't active at all, even in the anti-Christine O'Donnell sense of the word.

Dirty talk? New sex survey's surprising stats Alexandra Petri 2010

Despite promises of confidentiality, then, we know there is underreporting (although there may also be overreporting).

Philip N. Cohen: Sex Crimes, Incarcerated 2010

Curiously, you might encounter overreporting among some populations (anyone with a popped collar) and underreporting among others (particularly married couples filing jointly).

The Volokh Conspiracy » Here Comes the Soda Tax? 2009

The Administrative Office also stresses that this is an unverified, preliminary report; and one can certainly see how the data might be skewed in various ways, though likely in the direction of underreporting for instance, lumping it under the general category of “intentional torts” rather than overreporting.

The Volokh Conspiracy » Alienation of Affections in North Carolina: 2009

In presenting their records to Congress and the American public, investigators and prosecutors have been systemically overreporting both the number of terrorism cases in the United States, and their successes in these cases.

Aziz Huq: Removing Gonzales Will Not Remove Systemic Problems 2008