The phrase "a preconceived conclusion" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when discussing an opinion or judgment that has been formed beforehand, often without sufficient evidence or consideration of other possibilities.
Example: "The researchers were criticized for drawing a preconceived conclusion without thoroughly analyzing the data."
Alternatives: "a predetermined judgment" or "an established opinion".
But this article is a smear campaign against an entire and rather noble industry that distorts and twists the truth to reach a preconceived conclusion independent of the facts.
Kagan, prompted by Democratic supporters on the Senate Judiciary Committee, gave a blunt denunciation of "results-oriented judging," the adjusting of judicial reasoning to fit a preconceived conclusion, but she refused to join them in applying the criticism to the current court under Chief Justice John Roberts.
Fourth and perhaps most important, in these exercises, students are not working toward a preconceived conclusion, using a predetermined series of steps, only to reveal something that they probably already learned about as a "known fact".
Indeed, as Mr. Silver introduced the committee members, he said that there was "no preconceived conclusion to this" and that the panel would consider "all possible options for strengthening the governance" of the school system.
They interpret every potential anomaly as evidence for their preconceived conclusion that Bigfoot, or whatever, is out there".
The question is not "Were these dinosaurs social, and how can we know?" but "What evidence already exists that will support our desired image of dinosaur behaviour?" Hence science is falsely shown as the search for only the data that will support preconceived conclusions, rather than an ongoing interrogation of nature in which the evidence does not always support what we had hoped or expected.
It is a conscious practice of not jumping to preconceived conclusions or fixed opinions.
I'm also not convinced that a lot of the people who are making those preconceived conclusions will come around, even if they were to see the film.
But other researchers see a lot of subjective interpretation going on if not outright efforts to justify preconceived conclusions.
He also said he had reached no preconceived conclusions about the results of the review.
"Wolfowitz and company disbelieve any analysis that doesn't support their own preconceived conclusions.
