Sentence examples for a commonly held misconception from inspiring English sources

We note that any good or bad effects of a treatment must necessarily be described by comparing it with a counterfactual scenario; the concept of 'absolute' benefits or harms is a commonly held misconception.

6 11–14 It is a commonly held misconception that incontinence is a normal part of ageing.

When these patients enter treatment, they are confronted with a commonly held misconception amongst health care workers that suicidal thinking and behavior will vanish when underlying psychiatric problems are treated.

Another commonly held misconception is that highway overpasses provide adequate shelter from tornadoes.

One commonly held misconception connected to Dyer is that he holds the second longest unbeaten record of fights of any boxer in world history, after fellow Welsh fighter Jimmy Wilde.

These reports strengthen the commonly held misconception that the short size of mature miRNAs allows them to escape degradation.

Still, the popsicle-stick economy may help us to dispel some commonly held misconceptions about why economists generally think that there are limits to how fast the economy can grow.

"It points out several commonly held misconceptions," he says.

Some activities may only strengthen commonly held misconceptions.

The view that biological evolution explains life's origin(s) and that hypotheses become theories, which then become laws are just two examples of commonly held misconceptions.

We (Herron, Maruca, Meir, Perry, Stal) designed the Darwinian Snails Lab to teach the basic principles of natural selection and to correct the most commonly held misconceptions about natural selection.