Sentence examples for an incorrect explanation from inspiring English sources

The preliminary inquiry concluded that Mr. Freeh did not intentionally mislead Congress when he gave an incorrect explanation as to why the head of the bureau's crime laboratory had been suspended.

A woman in the audience was humiliated when she gave an incorrect explanation of the Immaculate Conception, which refers to Mary's being born without sin, not the virgin birth.

They had a correct intuition for what is going to occur (boat moves in the opposite direction), but an incorrect explanation (waves).

UN Ambassador Susan Rice has been the focus of outrage from Republicans in Congress, for giving the news media what has been acknowledged as an incorrect explanation for the attack.

The mailers contained conflicting information about the deadline to submit voter registration forms, incorrect contact information for the Secretary of State and State Board of Elections offices and an incorrect explanation about how voters are notified that their information has been received.

Explanations are generally not as useful as examples [ 45, 16, 47, 48]: Experimental Study 7F) Undergraduate psychology students were challenged with problems, and provided with an example solution and either a correct or an incorrect explanation of the solution [ 45].

In most uses of the term, misconceptions furthermore refers to scientifically incorrect ideas that are persistent and commonly held, rather than to any incorrect explanation in science.

Their experiment gave rise to an enduring — and incorrect — explanation for muscle failure; scientists now know that lactate, the form in which lactic acid occurs in the body, actually fuels muscular contraction rather than inhibiting it.

He launched into a puzzling – and factually incorrect – explanation of how Adolf Hitler supported Zionism before he "went mad", and arguing that Corbyn's party was being deliberately labelled antisemitic as a "smear" by the "Israeli lobby".

The main reason for introducing the notion of ideaesthesia was the empirical evidence indicating that the related term synesthesia (i.e. union of senses) suggests incorrect explanation of a set of phenomena traditionally covered by this heading.

It was a low-stakes measure that tested student understanding of the day's lecture content at the end of class (correct explanation in full = A; partial but correct explanation = B; attempted, but incorrect explanation = C; no attempt = F).