'incorrect beliefs' is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it when you want to refer to beliefs that are not true or based on inaccurate information. For example, "Many people have incorrect beliefs about climate change."
I must disagree with Michael O'Hanlon's claim that the United Nations "had the same incorrect beliefs as our agencies".
The United Nations and most European and Middle Eastern intelligence outfits had the same incorrect beliefs as our agencies, for the same understandable reasons.
"Those who aspire to sideline the state are many because of incorrect beliefs and doctrines," said the spokesman, Abu Mohammed al-Adnani al-Shami.
(These latter numbers might partially explain the Voter News Service's early call of Florida for Mr. Gore. The exit polls reflected people's sometimes incorrect beliefs about whom they had voted for).
In addition, they are affected by naive and incorrect beliefs about mathematics, mathematics learning, and problem solving that are not conducive to the development of self-regulation skills.
In order for policy to make a difference and change to occur in actual practice, personal beliefs of frontline staff must be evaluated and incorrect beliefs challenged.
He was using the standard definition: to lead into error, to cause someone to form an incorrect belief.
But if students are making poor decisions due to the incorrect belief that "everybody does it", why not give them the facts?
This was disproved by a better theory, although not without strong opposition from those firmly holding the earlier, and incorrect, belief.
And strongly suggestive questions can sometimes plant a false idea in the mind of a witness, causing them to assent to a suggestion, in the incorrect belief - temporary or permanent - that it is true.
She suggested it would be a way of neutralising the hostility to the Human Rights Act that comes from the (incorrect) belief that it is something to do with the European Union.
