The phrase "assumptions reflect" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when discussing how certain beliefs or ideas are indicative of underlying thoughts or perspectives.
Example: "The assumptions reflect the cultural values that influence our decision-making process."
Alternatives: "assumptions indicate" or "assumptions reveal".
As such, their usefulness is constrained by how well the assumptions reflect something that might actually happen.
Various assumptions reflect the value of democratic governance in this literature.
"Today's oil price downturn could last for several years, and Shell's planning assumptions reflect today's market realities," the company said.
These parsimonious assumptions reflect the lack of information currently available on the transmission dynamics of the leprosy epidemic.
The bank said its new assumptions "reflect the extreme loss projections implied by the prices achieved in the very limited number of observable market transactions" last month.
Both of these assumptions reflect that small molecules are certainly less attached to the surface than the macromolecules built from them (or from similar small molecules).
We then gradually modified the model to include practical agronomic constraints and assumptions reflecting bounded rationality, and assessed the explanatory power of the added model components.
To get back pay to workers more quickly, agencies were allowed to make what the OPM called "simplifying assumptions" — reflecting an employee's usual pay, without overtime or other potential add-ons.
Matthew Menken Princeton, N.J., June 4, 2009 To the Editor: Without commenting on the separation of Al and Tipper Gore, I think there are at least four reasons to be appalled at the attitude and assumptions reflected by Deirdre Bair in her article.
The latter assumptions reflects modern Smartphones, where multiple applications generate multiple requests in parallel.
The use of the terms constructs and concepts is related to different philosophical assumptions reflected in different types of case study designs.
