False Equivalence

The little-known English error that muddles the meaning of your text

Kimberly Moravec
The Greengrocers’ Style Guide
3 min readApr 13, 2022

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A false equivalence is an error in writing that is both common and difficult to spot, even for native English speakers. It frequently occurs in the results section of science papers, where things such as methods, variables, metrics, and results are often compared. Despite its frequency, this grammar error is not often…

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