Transparent and semi-transparent 'plastic'-type panels that have been installed for natural lighting requirements have been assumed to provide passive fire venting, based on misperceptions of generic 'plastic' performance in the event of a fire.
Mr. Sharpton had urged leniency, asserting that Mr. Riccardi's action had been based on misperceptions from distorted news coverage of Mr. Sharpton.
Davuluri, the first-ever Miss America winner of Indian descent, was the subject of racist backlash online that targeted her Indian-American identity, as well as insults based on misperceptions that she is Arab, Muslim or both.
"This is not a matter to be decided based on misperception.
More fundamentally, some program goals appear to be based on common misperceptions regarding the linkages between forests and watershed services.
The most commonly used term is kteuy or ladyboys, based on the misperception by many Cambodians that homosexuals and transvestites are one and the same.
"The advocates of GM technology are wrong when they say that public resistance is based on a misperception of risk," says George Gaskell, a sociologist at the London School of Economics.
The criticism, she says, is based on the misperception that exploration "is just people cruising the high seas on a lark".
These fears are understandable and need to be recognized, but they are based on a misperception.
Opposition to self-injected contraception might also be based on the misperception that women would need to self-inject with an intramuscular delivery device (instead of a subcutaneous device).
