The phrase "a popular perception of" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when discussing widely held beliefs or views about a particular subject or issue.
Example: "There is a popular perception of climate change as a distant problem, rather than an immediate threat."
Alternatives: "a common belief about" or "a widespread view of".
The findings resonate with a popular perception of the industry.
Nonetheless, Justice Ginsburg's impression fits with a popular perception of the court.
A popular perception of the smart home is one of unfettered domestic bliss replete with robot hoovers, automated locks and self-refilling fridges.
There is a popular perception of Beckham in the United States, established through chic magazine spreads over the five years he has spent in California: every hair in its place, and bland quotations, repetitive, perfectly meaningless.
The budding Hindu-Jewish relationship presents a view that counters a popular perception of New York City -- not as an open door to immigrants seeking a better life, but as a political way station, where some people come or stay not to make money but to engage in politics from afar.
Yet, our three-and-a-half-year investigation reveals a gap between the legitimacy as fraud-busters of these modern-day Don Quixotes and a popular perception of whistleblowers as traitors or snitches.
Some administration officials say they have lost control of the public relations aspects of the inspection process, creating a popular perception that it is the job of the inspectors working alone to find direct evidence of nuclear, biological or chemical weapons programs.
Days after a court in Bihar ordered the Muzaffarpur police to register a case against Raj Thackeray, the head of the far-right Maharashtra Navnirman Sena party, for threatening to drive workers from the north Indian state out of Mumbai, Mr. Thackeray reiterated a popular perception that migrants from poorer parts of India are pouring into Maharashtra, raising crime levels.
A popular perception is that the introduction of new trainee physicians is associated with an increase in adverse outcomes in patients, but the evidence from previous studies in general medical, obstetric, or surgical patients does not support this hypothesis.
Zhu Jingwen, a former EALS visiting scholar and professor at Renmin University, delivered a paper concerning popular perception of different mechanisms for the control of state power.
For Elliott and Atkinson, there is a vast contrast between the popular perception of a successful British economy and the reality of a country still recording record trade deficits, with a government that deludes itself that it is somehow a world leader in research, development and the 'knowledge-based' industries of the future.
