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Britain is partly to blame for this misconception.
One reason for this misconception is the decision made some years ago to promote a few big programmes at the expense of the rest.
The credits are partly at fault for this misconception — it was rare for directors to get screen credit for their contributions to a script — but it's also a result of the comparison of the run-of-the-mill to the exceptional, the mediocre to the artistic.
Students in courses that used the workbook version chose a distractor expressing the Adaptive mutation misconception more frequently than those using the tutorial version; the standardized score for this misconception was significantly higher for the workbook students (Mean = 0.32 ± 0.32; Mdn = 0.33) than the tutorial students (Mean = 0.23 ± 0.28; Mdn = 0; Z = 5.98, p < 0.0001), r = 0.12.
And we are paying for this misconception dearly.
One explanation for this misconception could be attributed to the overstressing that TB is an opportunistic disease for HIV/AIDS.
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Using a different assessment, Abraham et al. (2009) did not find evidence for a decrease in use of this misconception for students using the original workbook version.
(Part of the reason may be the common misconception that paleoanthropologists are in search of "the missing link"—a transitional form that would clinch, for once and for all, the case for our shared common ancestry with the rest of the primates and without which the case is incomplete. For a discussion of this misconception, see Mead 2009).
For sufferers and those who care for them, this misconception is a total pain.
Future research can explicitly focus on determining the pervasiveness of the idea that need is a rationale for change in biological systems and on effective strategies for changing this misconception to a scientifically accurate explanation.
For President Obama, this misconception provides a bit of cover; it helps obscure his failure to follow up on his campaign promises about engaging Iran with any serious, strategically grounded proposals.
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