Sentence examples for erroneous understanding of from inspiring English sources

Osborne says the OBR figures are based on an erroneous understanding of what the next government will do.

And there has been a very erroneous understanding of that time, perpetuated by some legal scholars who claim that everyone in Britain had guns in the 18th century.

Caplan's point is that voters' views on the economy are not random, the result of "rational ignorance"; they reflect systematic biases caused by an erroneous understanding of the way economies work.

Nevertheless, a good many commenters remained committed to their erroneous understanding of the case, some castigating Ms. Liebeck as foolish for driving with liquid she must have known would be hot.

Representative Henry A. Waxman, Democrat of California, opened an investigation last month into whether his company has been overcharging the military for its contract in Iraq, although Mr. Sargeant said Mr. Waxman's office had an erroneous understanding of what the company was billing.

Nineteenth-century anthropologists had judged exotic peoples similarly, saying they had no creation myths and apparently crude languages that could not count or convey abstract thought, before it was proved it was our erroneous understanding of these "primitive" societies that was primitive.

Students may perform poorly on an assessment item not because of erroneous understanding, but rather because of how the problem was framed.

Americans support a war when they feel threatened, which they initially did in Iraq because of the (erroneous) understandings about weapons of mass destruction and Iraq as a terrorist nexus.

With bridging analogies, instructors provide a series of links between a student's correct understanding and the situation about which he or she harbors an erroneous understanding.

Given that erroneous public understanding of climate change has been proposed as an important roadblock to public action (Weber & Stern, 2011), it may be that inconsistencies in the measurement of public understanding of climate change is a barrier to better understanding of the relationships between beliefs and behavior/policy support.

Indeed, although describing CSF and its flow through the ventricular system, Magendie was erroneous in his understanding of direction of its movement.