Such assumptions shape the nature, speed and depth of coverage -- assumptions like, "something bad must have been going down; the kid, undoubtedly, was up to no good".
Ms. Harvey has spent more than a decade brilliantly toying with inane assumptions like these.
The system also makes some automatic assumptions, like excluding gift-wrapped items.
We've got to stop making assumptions like this one and others like it.
But assumptions like these have no place when the sparklers are being passed around.
Hanson in full bigoted splendour, flaunting racial stereotypes and ignorant assumptions like a Hills hoist flaunts Aussie flags.
Their results have challenged some common assumptions, like the belief that poor mothers remain single because they don't value marriage.
Complexity obscures the simple but sometimes terrible assumptions (like that housing prices will never fall) upon which models rely.
I've been in the game long enough to know what can happen if you start making assumptions like that.
Even the governor's sobering projections, Mr. Angelides said, were based on optimistic assumptions, like savings from large-scale energy conservation, that could fail to materialize.
"There were all these assumptions, like if you want to protest, you have to go to London, or that MPs' surgeries are just for the middle aged.
