He suggests that Osama bin Laden is not, as often supposed, in Pakistan's wild northern areas, but in eastern Afghanistan.
This Carnegie International exposes the supposedly great divide between object-oriented or, as some would have it, market-driven art, and activist, socially involved art and suggests that they are not nearly as mutually exclusive as often supposed.
With these and other strategies, it becomes an empirical question whether inefficient lock-in is as common as is often supposed; it is certainly not self-evident.Turning to the actual evidence, the authors find no such cases at all.
But while there clearly is a difference between the abilities of young children, on the one hand, and older children and adults, on the other, to recover from left brain insults, the contrast in recovery course and outcome is not as stark as is often supposed.
Running through Dr. Soetoro's doctoral research, as through all her work, was a challenge to popular perceptions regarding economically and politically marginalized groups; she showed that the people at society's edges were not as different from the rest of us as is often supposed.
Not that alcohol "dehydrates" the body, as is often supposed.
The evidence is that grammar schools do not promote social mobility, as is often supposed, but are instead hijacked by the middle classes.
Although the kimono is not of Japanese origin, as is often supposed, its great beauty is attributable to 17th- and 18th-century Japanese designers, whose decorative styles made it one of the world's most exquisite garments.
And it was Blanche, and not her husband, as is often supposed, who signed up Dashiell Hammett, Raymond Chandler, and James M. Cain, establishing a tradition of publishing high-end thrillers that remains a Knopf hallmark.
Of civil rights movements past and present, Sharpton said Dr Martin Luther King Jr and Malcolm X were not conflicting forces, as is often supposed, but rather that "sitting here arguing about Martin and Malcolm is like arguing about your momma and daddy".
The low price of the paperback, which moved books for the first time into the area of impulse buying, is due essentially to the large number printed, seldom fewer than 30,000 and frequently far more, and not, as is often supposed, to the use of paper instead of a hard cover for the binding.
