The phrase "a wrong perception" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when discussing misunderstandings or incorrect beliefs about a situation or concept.
Example: "Many people have a wrong perception of the benefits of meditation, thinking it only helps with relaxation."
Alternatives: "an incorrect perception" or "a false perception."
This is about more than correcting a wrong perception, or ensuring measurements are accurate.
"The perception that everyone that comes here gets refugee status and will be resettled is a wrong perception.
"The most dangerous consequence of the hysteria is that now we have to live in fear that our children can be removed from us on the basis of a wrong perception.
"If this prize gives the impression that the chemical weapons inspections in Syria will help foster peace, then it's a wrong perception," said Louay Safi, a senior figure in Syria's main opposition.
In an interview with a local newspaper, he said "many people have a wrong perception about us".
Nine tour titles, including victories at the Olympic test event and European Championships, suggest that approach is working - but Cullen believes there is a wrong perception within the GB Taekwondo camp that Cook's success reflects poorly on them.
Sperling wrote, "I do understand your problems with a couple of our statements in the fall — but feel on the other hand that you focus on a few specific trees that gives a very wrong perception of the forest.
I do understand your problems with a couple of our statements in the fall -- but feel on the other hand that you focus on a few specific trees that gives a very wrong perception of the forest.
That is actually a pretty wrong perception these days as we have treatments that are strongly based on learning theory," she says.
We may think this an outrageously wrong perception, but it becomes - or should become - a rather urgent factor in calculating how to restore a sense of lawfulness that would sustain some coherent action to punish, and how to secure a future that would be more settled and just for everyone.
The Durham University professor said poor readers wanted to be called dyslexic because of a "widespread, but wrong, perception that dyslexics are generally intellectually bright".
