Sentence examples for incorrect ideas from inspiring English sources

You could counter that it is the nature of market people to be gloomy – and they had some pretty politically incorrect ideas about where things had gone wrong.

The censorship office's 11 guidelines for what cannot be printed still include "anything that might be harmful to national solidarity and unity... any incorrect ideas which do not accord with the times... [and] any descriptions which, though factually correct, are unsuitable because of the time or the circumstance of their writing".

These incorrect ideas must be challenged, according to Paul Morrison from the Methodist Church.

This meant that we did not necessarily score factually incorrect ideas as misconceptions.

One reason is the phenomenon of the "information cascade," the way in which incorrect ideas gain acceptance by being parroted until eventually we assume they must be true even in the absence of persuasive evidence.

Especially with the ongoing global financial crisis, it will be more expedient to focus on changing the incorrect ideas in peoples' minds rather than turning the entire world into a police station.

Another group of experts, including Dr. Sawka, say the heat tolerance test is based on an old, and incorrect, idea that heatstroke involves damage to the hypothalamus, a brain region that regulates body temperature.

It's easy to understand how Robinson arrived at this incorrect idea: when a measurement of one electron here can instantaneously affect the measurement of another electron on the opposite side of the universe, faster than the speed of light, it does seem as though causality has been thrown out the window.

Note that you may not want to have students take a poll about which premise is best supported (as recommended in the teacher's guide), since this might give students the incorrect idea that scientific ideas are judged based on popularity.

A major incorrect idea related to equilibrium was that biological systems are at equilibrium.

This might invoke the incorrect idea that the concrescence implies a fusion of adult teeth formed by mineralized tissues.