The phrase "are misguided about" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when discussing someone's incorrect beliefs or misunderstandings regarding a particular topic.
Example: "Many people are misguided about the effects of climate change, believing it to be a distant issue rather than an immediate threat."
Alternatives: "are misinformed about" or "have misconceptions about".
While he thinks they are misguided about how peace can be achieved, he said, "I don't think they are misguided in terms of being off the wall".
Certainly we are misguided about death, Hitchens finds, on the most basic levels, recalling that before his cancer was diagnosed, "I rather jauntily told the readers of my memoirs that when faced with extinction I wanted to be fully conscious and awake, in order to 'do' death in the active and not the passive sense".
Accounting Principals also reports that American workers are misguided about the biggest drain on their finances, with 42% saying that commuting costs are their greatest expense and only 11% acknowledging that lunch is draining their wallets.
Too often, children are misguided about people who suffer psychologically.
Household's chief executive, Donald Clark, has indicated that he thinks Mr. Jacobs is misguided about that.
Yet Democrats still long for House Speaker Newt Gingrich, a symbol of what they said was misguided about the Republican Party.
It was a diagnosis he has now come to regret, believing he may have been misguided about aspects of the case.
In a recent interview, the Cardinal said the Governor "has a great deal to offer on other issues," but is misguided about abortion, which the Catholic Church compares to the taking of an innocent life.
Does Mackey really believe that a diet doctor, cosmetic plastic surgeon or aesthetic dermatologist chooses his field to "heal people?" Mackey isn't the only big-time CEO to be misguided about what has become known as corporate social responsibility, or CSR.
And what could be misguided about injecting junk into your lips so they appear to have been stung by bees?
To say that hospitals and their regulator, the Joint Commission, have been misguided about preventing the spread of hospital ("nosocomial") infections would be an understatement.
