And while their liturgy cites various reasons for opting out, most of them religious, a list of "common misconceptions" about doing so on the Jehovah's Witness website includes the following: Myth: You miss out on the "Christmas spirit" of generosity, peace on earth, and goodwill toward men.
To create a list of common misconceptions about genetic drift, we consulted previous studies that identified and described common student ideas about genetic drift (Andrews et al., 2012), natural selection (Gregory, 2009), and random patterns and processes in biology (Garvin-Doxas and Klymkowsky, 2008; Klymkowsky and Garvin-Doxas, 2008; Mead and Scott, 2010).
We agreed on an initial list of misconceptions about genetic drift.
To quantify the presence or absence of misconceptions on the open-response test items, we (Abraham, Herron, Meir) first developed a rubric based on the list of misconceptions culled from the literature (Table 1).
Backing up that idea is Media Matters' laundry list of misconceptions common in energy reporting, which concluded that the only way to become less vulnerable to oil price spikes is to "use less oil.
We therefore concluded our list of misconceptions included all but the rarest genetic drift misconceptions held by participating students.
Toward the end of our analysis, we tested our list of misconceptions to ensure it was exhaustive.
Using the initial list of misconceptions produced in step 3, we began coding the full data set.
To break down these misconceptions, we've assembled a list of 5 common myths about pre-seed and share what's behind our passion for feeding the ideas of tomorrow's next great companies.
A list of expectations (anticipated good answers, steps in a procedure) and a list of anticipated misconceptions (bad answers, incorrect beliefs, errors, bugs) are associated with each task.
