Sentence examples for an untested assumption from inspiring English sources

But it's an untested assumption, which raises the question: is it actually true?

Some are blobby and elliptical, and it was an untested assumption that the distribution of star sizes in elliptical galaxies is the same as in the Milky Way.

The high-minded Brits add a lecture: food-industry workers shouldn't need to scrabble for the scraps thrown from high table — they should be paid a decent wage (although the idea that the delivery boys of Britain are paid a decent wage is generally an untested assumption).

The high-minded Brits add a lecture: food-industry workers shouldn't need to scrabble for the scraps thrown from high table they should be paid a decent wage (although the idea that the delivery boys of Britain are paid a decent wage is generally an untested assumption).

All the approaches, and the billions of dollars the drug industry has invested in them, teeter on an untested assumption: that blocking nerve impulses in the body's periphery, before the signals reach the spinal cord, is the best way to block pain.

However, says Preston, the work "rests on an untested assumption that males do become sperm depleted.

And what's interesting is that that has remained a largely untested assumption.

A largely untested assumption in unipolar depression is that pharmacological strategies that are effective in the short term are the most suitable for postacute and residual phases or maintenance.

While the motor impairments that are at the core of DCD are believed to be stable and chronic, this is a largely untested assumption.

There is often an implicit, and untested, assumption that scaling doesn't affect experimental outcomes in microcosm studies [ 3].

A general, but untested, assumption is that variability in soil and fuel properties increases from small (∼1 m) to large spatial scales (∼10 100 km).