Lacking an understanding of mechanisms allows misconceptions and alternative "theories" to take hold.
This simplification, although technically true, glosses over some details (e.g., evolution is allele frequency change in a population over time) that allow misconceptions to persist unexamined.
For example, informal feedback via community representatives and project fieldworkers, supplemented and validated by formal qualitative research methods [ 34], allowed misconceptions and rumours (uzushi) about the trial, its objectives and the risks or benefits of gel use to be captured, and locally-appropriate responses implemented.
Don't allow misconceptions about how one gets STIs to keep you from getting tested.
These experiments, coupled with a critical examination of published data, allow certain misconceptions and apparent contradictions to be understood and explained.
It is also a neglect that allows unhelpful misconceptions about the practices of cattle owners to solidify - fallacies that must be actively challenged.
The question is whether it would be desirable to remove patients' misconceptions, allowing them to participate in policy decisions on the basis of sound information, or whether it would be better to leave the misconceptions uncontested, in order to retain the 'magic' of additional tests and reassure patients.
"The government has allowed the misconception to grow that a yes vote will mean an automatic change to our contracts and this is not the case," says Mr López.If the referendum is defeated and Mr Mesa falls, renationalisation of the industry might follow.
Thus assessing students' prior knowledge is important, allowing instructors to target misconceptions and optimize learning.
This has allowed the apparent misconception among some people, both in Africa and the west, that homosexuality is an imperial import and that those opposed to the human rights of gay communities are simply reclaiming their pre-colonial cultural values.
