The phrase "incorrect explanations" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when referring to explanations that are not accurate or misleading.
Example: "The teacher pointed out several incorrect explanations in the students' essays."
Alternatives: "wrong explanations" or "false explanations".
In Study 1, undergraduates judged a series of statements as "good" (i.e., correct) or "bad" (i.e., incorrect) explanations for why different phenomena occur.
Some teachers, even several learning materials also use incorrect explanations or confuse explanation with description (Horwood 1988; Tang and Chiu 2010).
In spite of incorrect explanations like those of New York Times political columnist Matt Bai that the election of Massachusetts Republican Scott Brown to the U.S. Senate resulted from the actions of a fickle electorate dominated by political independents, the loss by Democrats of a long-held Senate seat is really a clear example of the old adage, "If you don't use it, you lose it".
The issue in litigation was the presence of doctor's explanation in only 19% of cases, as compared to 81% involving insufficient or incorrect explanations by the physician.
The overly simplistic – and incorrect – explanation for this is that the lack of Rangers in the Premiership has harmed the rest.
He launched into a puzzling – and factually incorrect – explanation of how Adolf Hitler supported Zionism before he "went mad", and arguing that Corbyn's party was being deliberately labelled antisemitic as a "smear" by the "Israeli lobby".
The preliminary inquiry concluded that Mr. Freeh did not intentionally mislead Congress when he gave an incorrect explanation as to why the head of the bureau's crime laboratory had been suspended.
Their experiment gave rise to an enduring — and incorrect — explanation for muscle failure; scientists now know that lactate, the form in which lactic acid occurs in the body, actually fuels muscular contraction rather than inhibiting it.
A woman in the audience was humiliated when she gave an incorrect explanation of the Immaculate Conception, which refers to Mary's being born without sin, not the virgin birth.
UN Ambassador Susan Rice has been the focus of outrage from Republicans in Congress, for giving the news media what has been acknowledged as an incorrect explanation for the attack.
They had a correct intuition for what is going to occur (boat moves in the opposite direction), but an incorrect explanation (waves).
