The phrase "an incorrect understanding of" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when discussing misconceptions or misunderstandings about a particular topic or concept.
Example: "Many people have an incorrect understanding of how climate change works, leading to misinformation."
Alternatives: "a flawed perception of" or "a misguided interpretation of".
It should not be made more difficult by an incorrect understanding of its scope and characteristics.
But the IFS said last night that "our modelling was based on an incorrect understanding of the government's proposals".
Before this semester, I had an incorrect understanding of what oral history was because I had often associated oral histories with storytelling.
The problem is no longer an incorrect understanding of the cause: around the world, people have known for more than a century what you have to do to prevent cholera.
Although my own organisation, Quilliam, has itself received Prevent funding, I would nonetheless argue that such objections are based on an incorrect understanding of secularism – and of what Prevent actually does.
Your desire to display the success of gay people everywhere by appropriating an incorrect understanding of Thailand's queer folk therefore seems rather lazy.Wei Khai Singapore SIR – Thank you for the very accurate, well-written and sensitively documented article.
For the most part, the law that so perniciously imposed second-class citizenship upon her client, said Ms. Kaplan, was the product of "an incorrect understanding that gay couples were fundamentally different than straight couples, an understanding that I don't think exists today and [it is in ] that sense [that] I'm using... 'Times can blind.'".
As it turns out, people would rather have a complete but incorrect understanding of the world than an incomplete but more correct understanding.
This practice seems mainly based on historical beliefs and an incomplete or incorrect understanding of the pathophysiology of sepsis.
The current acceptance of the therapy is based in part on long history and familiarity with its use in the resuscitation of other forms of shock, as well as on an incomplete and incorrect understanding of the pathophysiology of sepsis.
