What's the difference between guidance and misguidance?
Guidance
Definition:
(n.) The act or result of guiding; the superintendence or assistance of a guide; direction; government; a leading.
Example Sentences:
(1) Results indicated a .85 probability that Directive Guidance would be followed by Cooperation; a .67 probability that Permissiveness would lead to Noncooperation; and a .97 likelihood that Coerciveness would lead to either Noncooperation or Resistance.
(2) Core biopsy with computed tomography (CT) or ultrasound (US) guidance may be such an alternative, particularly when a spring-loaded firing device is used.
(3) GlaxoSmithKline was unusually critical of the decision by Nice, the National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence, and also the Scottish Medicines Consortium, to reject its drug belimumab (brand name Benlysta) in final draft guidance.
(4) Think of Nelson Mandela – there is a determination, an unwillingness to bend in the face of challenges, that earns you respect and makes people look to you for guidance.
(5) Nice (the National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence) has also published new guidance on good patient experience that provides a strong framework on which to build good engagement practice.
(6) Two mechanisms are evident in chicks' spatial representations: a metric frame for encoding the spatial arrangement of surfaces as surfaces and a cue-guidance system for encoding conspicuous landmarks near the target.
(7) Oocytes obtained by laparoscopy were compared with those obtained under ultrasonic guidance to determine whether CO2 exposure had any adverse effect.
(8) While it’s not unknown to see such self-balancing mini scooters on the pavement, under legal guidance reiterated on Monday by the Crown Prosecution Service all such “personal transporters”, including hoverboards and Segways , are banned from the footpath.
(9) US guidance facilitated placement of a 22-gauge needle by means of a subxyphoid or transthoracic approach.
(10) These findings in a patient with acute leukaemia are strongly suspicious of fungal infection, and percutaneous fine-needle aspiration under ultrasound or computed tomography-guidance is indicated.
(11) Contact guidance has been suggested to direct NC cells ventrally in the trunk, but this has been subject to doubt (see Newgreen and Erickson, 1986, Int.
(12) O'Donnell said he had decided to publish his guidance now to ensure there was clarity before the election.
(13) The Department of Health has argued that the NHS should have local policies on DNR issues, based on the professional guidance from the BMA, Royal College of Nursing and Resuscitation Council .
(14) Its expression is developmentally regulated, and it is sensitive to phosphatidylinositol-specific phospholipase C. These are properties expected for a molecule responsible for the phenomena observed in experiments on in vitro guidance of retinal axons.
(15) His call comes after senior police admitted there was a need for guidance on a consistent approach across the country to the policing of the protests because of the likelihood of further exploration sites being given the go-ahead.
(16) The duration and "growth guidance" aspects of treatment allowed for functional as well as morphologic adaption to the altered hyoid position.
(17) In order to make such difficult decisions, the parents are dependent upon the guidance and counseling of health professionals, especially the physicians most closely involved in each case.
(18) In this paper we argue that private medical care has so far been allowed to develop without guidance and controls, and little use has been made of it to support government health services.
(19) Molecular characterization of such genes could lead to the identification of molecules critical in axonal outgrowth and guidance in higher organisms.
(20) The authors report the case of a patient affected with carcinoma of the pancreas who underwent fine-needle aspiration biopsy under ultrasonic guidance.
Misguidance
Definition:
(n.) Wrong guidance.
Example Sentences:
(1) In an article for the Nation, Chomsky courts controversy by arguing that parallels drawn between campaigns against Israel and apartheid-era South Africa are misleading and that a misguided strategy could damage rather than help Israel's victims.
(2) If so, it’s a misguided belief, with the digital age disrupting politics as it does so many other areas of life.
(3) "Following a meeting with the Secretary of State Ed Davey today, we are considering our position as clearly the challenge for us and the entire solar industry in the UK is within the detail of the CFD regime itself; which solar is now being forced into and more specifically, how this system is going to be implemented for solar; which clearly has different considerations to other technologies.” Updated at 5.53pm BST 5.48pm BST My verdict Our question today was probably misguided.
(4) I think if anyone was expecting a turnaround [so soon] that was misguided.
(5) Some providers, including both schools and colleges, misguidedly retain learners in unsuitable provision or try to duplicate provision in schools that is better delivered in further education colleges or work-based learning providers."
(6) "The American people themselves have been put at risk by these actions that I believe are arrogant, misguided and ultimately not helpful in any way," he said.
(7) Cubism as practised by Picasso and Braque they thought courageous, up to a point, but misguided.
(8) Thus alternative medicine may become a disadvantage, a danger for science (lavished means) and society (misguidance of patients).
(9) Everything he said was misguided – and he demonised us.
(10) You are now smarter than the various female celebrities and misguided women who pay for ridiculous treatments with names like "blood transfusion facials" and "gold facials" and God knows what else.
(11) Erroneous presumptions about children's reactions to pain have misguided professionals' management of this issue.
(12) Their proposed EO really I think was too simplistic and misguided because it was identifying one’s nationality as being responsible for a potential terrorist act,” Brennan said.
(13) Some will look back at that age and see either misguided paternalism or rank naivety.
(14) It was a misguided action by an unauthorised individual that should never have occurred,” John Rogers, executive general manager, southern Pacific, of Wilson Security, told the inquiry.
(15) More recently, fanned by misguided but vigorous religious doctrine, the situation has changed dramatically.
(16) Attempts to explain infantile autism in terms of just one underlying neurological or psychological deficit may be misguided.
(17) Misguided emphasis on the most extreme and photogenic radical right groups also plays out in Hungary.
(18) The Labour leader said he would never disparage David Cameron in the same way, even though he believes the prime minister's policies are "profoundly misguided".
(19) This is a misguided and poorly targeted way to help people with low skills,” he said.
(20) This should be founded on the mutual responsibility of those involved and no longer on a misguided idea of aid.