As a basis for crime prevention, stylised and inaccurate conceptions of victims are at best useless and at worst counter-productive.
Many students (in both high school and college) are: 1) not being given adequate instruction in biological evolution; 2) being taught inaccurate conceptions of biological evolution; and 3) being explicitly taught non-science material (e.g., creationism and intelligent design) in their science classes (Bandoli, 2008; Beardsley, 2004; Bowman, 2008; Cavanagh, 2005; Gross, 2006; Wallis, 2005).
While it may be that misconceptions is the more popular term (Crowther and Price, 2014), some have suggested that alternative conceptions better respects research demonstrating that meaningful learning may start from scientifically inaccurate conceptions (Maskiewicz and Lineback, 2013).
While we are limited by the scarcity of research on this topic, we are concerned that this leads to inaccurate conceptions of the value of SOSM based in assumptions and anecdotes as opposed to data.
In contrast, numerous studies have focused on undergraduates' scientifically inaccurate conceptions about natural selection (e.g., Bishop and Anderson, 1990; Settlage, 1994; Jensen and Finley, 1996; Anderson et al., 2002; Abraham et al., 2009; Gregory, 2009; Kalinowski et al., 2010; Andrews et al., 2011).
The LMP method is limited by inaccurate maternal recall, uncertain time of conception and implantation, irregular menses/oligomenorrea and pre-pregnancy use of hormonal contraceptives.
In the context of involuntary care, it seems prescriptively inaccurate to make use of a conception of patient autonomy that does not incorporate some capacity to reflect on and revise the understanding of the best alternative intervention (so-called second order desires).
Though many of our popular conceptions of the "puritans" are inaccurate, they did in fact mind one another's business in a way most modern Americans would find creepy.
Students' alternative conceptions, such as folk taxonomy groupings, can cause individuals to generate a variety of inaccurate responses when interpreting and explaining scientific concepts.
