misscreen

English

Etymology

mis- +‎ screen

Verb

misscreen (third-person singular simple present misscreens, present participle misscreening, simple past and past participle misscreened)

1. To screen (examine in order to assess the status of) improperly.
   • 1956, Monographs of the Society for Research in Child Development, page 25:

     In judging the evidence on these and subsequent questions, the 5 per cent level of statistical significance is used. χ² and p values are always given for the combination of over-and underscreening into per cent misscreened and for the combination of over- and underrating into per cent misrated.

   • 1967, United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Labor and Public Welfare. Subcommittee on Employment, Manpower, and Poverty, Examination of the War on Poverty, page 3136:

     Let me say this: In going from about 3,000 girls to 9,500 girls in a very short period of time, in April, May, and June, we got some youngsters who were misscreened, were poorly screened, and didn't belong in the Job Corps.

   • 2000, Proceedings of the Eucarpia Symposium on Fruit Breeding and Genetics, Dresden, Germany, 6-10 September, 1999, page 550:

     a very limited number of plants (about 0.5%), classified as susceptible to scab in greenhouse, showed no scab lesions after two years in nursery and, because they had all the Vf-linked markers, were probably misscreened in greenhouse;