Sentences with phrase «erroneous assumptions about»

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.

He says that the media convinces the public to believe the art critics» erroneous assumptions about art, so the public accepts these opinions without ever actually viewing the art.

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.

In fact there are communications gaps all over the charter - financing landscape, leading to myths and erroneous assumptions about charters» credit - worthiness (which is actually quite strong).

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.

Don't make her feel ashamed, don't exile her to the bathroom, don't make erroneous assumptions about her motives, don't compare feeding her baby to defecating, don't make hypocritical cultural statements, don't make it harder to do than it already is.

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.

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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.

So, for example, you might finish up answering a question about back pay, then say «Similarly, plaintiff's calculations of front pay are grossly exaggerated due to two erroneous assumptions....»

For decades, fire investigators relied on a set of erroneous beliefs and assumptions, akin to folklore, about what were thought to be the telltale signs of arson that were passed down from one generation to the next and accepted at face value.

Findings in this heavily litigated area are often predicated on erroneous clinical assumptions such as: that doctors accept uncritically and at face value what the client says about their history (HE (DRC — credibility and psychiatric reports) Democratic Republic of Congo [2004] UKIAT 00321); that only psychiatrists can diagnose conditions such as post-traumatic stress disorder (HH (Ethiopia) v SSHD [2007] EWCA Civ 306, [2007] All ER (D) 259 (Mar)-RRB-; and that doctors do not consider alternative explanations, including fabrication when, in fact, this is integrated into medical training and has always been a specified requirement of the IP (para 105 (f)-RRB-.

Both the political left and the political right have jumped to conclusions in the debate about marriage, based on the erroneous assumption that correlations support causal inferences.