discrepant

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These discrepant views—these concepts of penguins—are the kind of information researchers at the University of California, Berkeley, elicited from participants in a study that was published last month.

From Scientific American • Apr. 25, 2023

To help him analyze the precious score’s two discrepant versions, Bern enlists the wisecracking, decoding mastermind Eboni Washington, who digitizes and cross-analyzes all the musical data.

From Washington Post • Apr. 20, 2023

The lab’s accreditation agency and the Forensic Investigation Council, an independent agency that oversees Washington’s forensic lab operations and policies, also have been kept apprised of discrepant results, Loftis added.

From Seattle Times • Jul. 25, 2021

And it prods researchers to discount discrepant findings.

From Science Magazine • Dec. 2, 2015

The term parental discipline, in fact, is most undefined; it includes the most discrepant and the most heterogeneous modes of correction.

From The American Quarterly Review No. XVIII, June 1831 (Vol 9) by Various