It's a lot like the Ptolemaic model of the planets that preceded Copernicus; the sun, the moon and the stars revolve around our portable reclining chairs, and whatever contradicts our right to harbor misconceptions — whether it be Birtherism, climate-science denial or the conviction that Trader Joe's sells good food — is the prattle of the unenlightened majority and can be dismissed out of hand.
Consultations did enable more clarification around girls' and women's menstrual materials for some organizations that appeared to harbor misconceptions.
Even after instruction, students harbor misconceptions about natural selection, suggesting that traditional teaching methods are insufficient for correcting these confusions.
They harbor misconceptions about hands-on instruction, viewing a series of tasks and lab activities as being equivalent to scientific inquiry.
It is uncertain how many teachers harbor misconceptions about zero.
A second reason much of the country lacks warmth for Hindus is that many Americans harbor misconceptions about their religion.
Q: How do you spread the message of Islam as a religion of peace in the circumstances you find in the United States where, because of terrorist attacks by Muslim extremists, some people harbor misconceptions about the nature of Islam?
Richard Settersten, Ph.D. and Barbara E. Ray, authors of Not Quite Adults speculate that many people harbor misconceptions about a recent trend to delay marriage, believing that young adults are afraid of commitment and are abandoning marriage.
Jen Kates, VP and director of global health and HIV policy at the Kaiser Family Foundation, said that current polling shows Americans are less fearful of AIDS than they once were, but "there are still those who harbor misconceptions about HIV.
However, some survey respondents harbor misconceptions about how the virus is spread.
Many Nigerian adolescents have poor understanding of the timing of conception; others harbor misconceptions such as the belief that a slipped condom can cause stomach discomfort and infertility [ 5- 7].
