Such compromise of the integrity of the double-blind in a clinical trial could lead to spurious results or an exaggeration of the treatment effect.
To be sure, there is a certain degree of exaggeration in his statement.
This was, of course, a gross exaggeration, not to say falsification.
Here, the blues as a malady is portrayed with outrageous exaggeration, a marker of signifying.
This was possibly an exaggeration, but it seems safe to assume that they encountered practically no open water on the way.
The large adverse gradients next to the leading edge were an exaggeration resulting from the local breakdown (non-uniformity) of the linearization discussed earlier.
The horizontal scale is for (b) and (c), vertical exaggeration c. x 8.
There are no definitive statistics on the casualties of the war, but the figure of three to five million deaths is certainly not an exaggeration.
