misresponse

English

Etymology

From mis- +‎ response.

Noun

misresponse (countable and uncountable, plural misresponses)

1. The act of misresponding or an instance of misresponding.
   • 2009, National Research Council, Division of Behavioral and Social Sciences and Education, Committee on National Statistics, Coverage Measurement in the 2010 Census, page 34:

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

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

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

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

     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.