"The problem isn't a knowledge deficit," an obesity counsellor once told me.
And he sees that there may be a "knowledge deficit" – people may not know very much about autism and Asperger's.
During the past few months, I have received hundreds of e-mail messages calling me an elitist for drawing attention to America's knowledge deficit.
A survey of most classroom libraries will reveal a core cause of the "knowledge deficit": the absence of nonfiction books and materials.
The researchers at the University of Missouri who conducted the survey concluded that the fear was irrational, revealing "a knowledge deficit" about "the safety of oral contraceptives".
A quick survey of cheese shops, markets, cheese publications and Serbian restaurants in the United States and abroad uncovered a knowledge deficit.
Subsequent works by Hirsch include Fairness and Core Knowledge (1991), The Schools We Need and Why We Don't Have Them (1996), and The Knowledge Deficit (2006).
In a series of reports for the United Nations, the first of which was published in 2002, a panel of Arab intellectuals concluded that the Middle East's development was severely impeded by both a "freedom deficit" and a "knowledge deficit".
Obama's chief strategist, David Axelrod, has a similar knowledge deficit.
Within this sub-theme four doctors identified new medications as a particular knowledge deficit.
There are very few people who know their knowledge deficit (Hacker et al. 1998).
