unreliable

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And while asking people to self-report their phone use can be unreliable, recognising our own habits is a "really important first step" to managing them, said Prof Pete Etchells of Bath Spa University.

From BBC • Jun. 2, 2026

Polling in mayoral races is typically pretty unreliable.

From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 1, 2026

The government has often referred to coal as the "ballast stone" for China's energy security: a reliable anchor in an often unreliable global energy market.

From BBC • May 31, 2026

The numbers that researchers have been using to predict which jobs could be lost to artificial intelligence may be unreliable.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 10, 2026

Over time, observation became an adjunct to experiment, both producing reliable facts in place of the unreliable, unspecific ‘experience’ which underlay so much classical and medieval discussion.

From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton