spurious

/spjˈʊɹɪəs/

/ˈspɝiəs/, /ˈspjʊɹiəs/

spurious

false or fake; not what it appears to be

plausible but false

synonyms : specious

born out of wedlock

synonyms : bastardly

ostensibly valid, but not actually valid

Examples

1. But the protocol could still have spurious retransmissions.

2. One very popular form of irrelevant evidence is the spurious correlation.

3. so our models do pick up on spurious confounds.

4. So again, we don't want spurious warnings--