misresponse

plural misresponses

1. countableuncountableThe act of misresponding or an instance of misresponding.

   Misresponse to irony depended on “who is speaking to whom.”

   2019, Willibald Ruch, Tracey Platt, René T. Proyer, Humor and Laughter, Playfulness and Cheerfulness, page 97

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   Misresponse, which might stem from a misunderstanding of census residence rules, can cause errors in determining both match status and correct enumeration status.

   2009, National Research Council, Division of Behavioral and Social Sciences and Education, Committee on National Statistics, Coverage Measurement in the 2010 Census, page 34

   These ideas of misevaluation and misresponse have to be understood against the background of Anderson's theory of different appropriate responses to different kinds of value.

   2020, Carl David Mildenberger, Commutative Justice: A Liberal Theory of Just Exchange