Sentences with phrase «erroneous assumption»

How many of our choices and actions might be based on erroneous assumptions about what others think of us?

Since the confidentiality of my medical status has been publicly violated, I am choosing to address this matter so that grossly erroneous assumptions about me do not persist.

This is the result of many erroneous assumptions in the theory that the empirical data simply doesn't support.

It's a misunderstanding of «fair use», based on the legally erroneous assumption that anything is okay until you make a business out of it.

However, sometimes Canadian lawyers and clients make erroneous assumptions about US trade - mark laws that can have a significant impact on a trade - mark portfolio.

China has emitted significantly less carbon since 2000 than previously estimated because of erroneous assumptions about the quality of the country's coal, a study released today claims.

I won't respond again, and I am sorry that it appear that people have jumped on the bandwagon here, with erroneous assumptions and admonitions.

(2) But that there are erroneous assumptions widely operative in the natural sciences is not enough to establish serious concern.

However, the investment community made the same erroneous assumptions about the permanence of the «Nifty Fifty» in the 1960s, oil corporations in the 1970s, computer hardware companies in the 1980s, as well as dot - com start - ups in the 1990s.

This is a completely erroneous assumption.

She discussed the importance of communicating climate information adequately to decision - makers in order to avoid a false understanding of this concept, and therefore to avoid erroneous assumptions that could lead to bad decisions.

He also quoted John Locke who in the 17th century said that «a madman is one who draws entirely reasonable conclusions from erroneous assumptions».

However, his excuses for deleting Hansen's Scenarios B and C are based on erroneous assumptions as detailed below.

«We want to prevent erroneous assumptions,» says Wendover.

Gladwell argues that we continue to make erroneous assumptions about what is powerful and continue to misjudge and miscalculate the abilities of those around us.

But despite its obvious appeal to Christian ideals, it was always founded on erroneous assumptions.

Prime... You choose to be ignorant of who and what I am, and you choose to make all sorts of erroneous assumptions about my beliefs and background.

A 2014 U.S. Chamber report contained erroneous assumptions about what EPA's then yet to be proposed limits on carbon pollution would look like, and quickly ran afoul of fact - checkers.

«When we ask how the market is doing in a metro area or even in a town, we are making the erroneous assumption that there actually is a «Boston market.»

In the Spring of this year the Administration was proceeding on the erroneous assumption that the debt ceiling would be raised with the support of most Democrats and a few moderate Republicans.

Making erroneous assumptions...

Because of the erroneous assumption thrust upon us that because you are having hard times it is a result of a persons personal character, a catch 22 traps and hinders people from being employed.

Mao was an idiot, but he worked under his erroneous assumptions to make the country to succeed and the people prosper.

Further, no refinement of philosophical criticism has shown that it is an erroneous assumption.

By claiming that atheists borrow their morality from religion (specifically Christianity), Wilson makes several gargantuan and erroneous assumptions.

The common, erroneous assumption that there is an inevitable conflict between the pastoral and the prophetic, between counseling and preaching, results from a false dichotomy — acceptance versus confrontation.

In the present highly charged environment, the mere announcement that there has been an accusation unfortunately leads even admirers of a priest to make erroneous assumptions and accept hearsay.

These strategies are scientifically suspect because they depend on the erroneous assumption that correlation means causation.

As another adoptive mother pointed out, there is an erroneous assumption being bandied about in many of these posts regarding the altruistic intentions of adoptive families.

Continuing to cite that erroneous assumption is deliberately misleading and dangerous.

This answer perpetuates the erroneous assumption of the OP that continents are political entities.

Such analyses do not require making the erroneous assumption of carbon neutrality for biomass.

In calculating the payback times for investment in alternative energy systems (27 March, p 46), Ed Douglas used an erroneous assumption.

-LSB-...] of the complexity of measuring BMR, NEAT, TEF, and EPOC, we make a simple but erroneous assumption that these factors are all constant over time.

The disastrous «low - fat diet» dogma of the last half century has led to a devastating drop in most people's intake of healthy saturated fats, including MCTs, as most people have bought into the erroneous assumption that saturated fats are unhealthy and will raise their risk of heart disease.

This erroneous assumption caused Ron to believe that he was testing colloidal silver when in fact he was testing ionic silver (90 %).

The methods developed at CSL to determine ionic vs. particle concentration were just being developed at the time Ron wrote the book and so he was not fully informed about the ion / particle ratio of the test samples and consequently made some erroneous assumptions.

The written word in texts or chats can easily be misinterpreted and a lot of erroneous assumptions could be made that might sabotage something from getting off the ground.

As their relationship splinters into numerous, discouraging trajectories, Locy doubles down on the erroneous assumption that depicting Ashley's misfortunes inherently yields a profound portraiture of human struggle.

There is no US release date set at this point, but a late 2012 release seems likely, with the 2013 date in the tweet possibly either an erroneous assumption, or the target window for territories outside the US.

As I have argued before, advocates of 21st century skills have also made this erroneous assumption.