misanalysis

noun

mis·​anal·​y·​sis ˌmis-ə-ˈna-lə-səs 

plural misanalyses ˌmis-ə-ˈna-lə-ˌsēz 

: the act or an instance of analyzing something improperly : bad or incorrect analysis

… is indelibly associated with what is surely one of the two or three greatest disasters in the history of American foreign policy—the misanalysis of the Chinese revolution of the 1940s …

—Chalmers Johnson

Word History

First Known Use

1906, in the meaning defined above