Sentence examples for a persistent misconception from inspiring English sources

There is a persistent misconception that the game is, or was released in lieu of, a follow-up to Secret of Mana.

A persistent misconception is that positive nuclear p53 immunohistochemical reactivity indicates p53 mutation.

This result informed the instructor that this is a persistent misconception and the concept needed to be revisited.

There is a persistent misconception among critical care personnel that the systemic acid base properties of a fluid are dictated by its pH.

Students who answered these questions incorrectly generally showed a persistent misconception (e.g., enzymes are required to make chemical reactions happen, rather than simply affecting their rates; Table 2).

A specific example of the challenge presented by poor or limited knowledge of development is the persistent misconception that "a single gene affects a single trait"; that is, that each trait has a single gene responsible for its development or that each gene is responsible for the development of a single trait (DV2 in Table 3; 1.8% of responses).

John Wilkins's book admirably tackles the first question by means of the second - offering a deep, thorough, and contextualized understanding of the species problem, clarifying a number of essential issues in that debate, and, in the process, correcting a number of persistent misconceptions about the idea of species from Plato to Darwin.

The foregoing research has highlighted a set of frequent and persistent misconceptions held by students at a range of levels.

Genetics is challenging to learn and teach, given the complexities of language (Cho et al., 1985; Helm, 1991), transitions between macro-, micro-, and molecular-level scales (Marbach-Ad and Stavy, 2000; Dauer et al., 2013), and persistent misconceptions (Bishop and Anderson, 1990; Anderson et al., 2002; Smith et al., 2008; Andrews et al., 2012).

It is sobering to note that students coming into a third-year genetics course at UBC held on to their persistent misconceptions, especially about ploidy and that, although there was significant improvement between pre- and posttest, the misconception persisted for many students.

However, he repeats some persistent misconceptions with regards to Walt Disney's ambitions for this project.