According to Agyei-Baffour, Oppong and Boateng [1], anytime there is an introduction of any new system or change, the fear of the unknown and protection of interests create anxiety among parties, and this apprehension may lead to misconception on the consequences of such new system.
The traditional approach of bandwidth estimation is not accurate as there are many factors like congestion that can delay the arrival rate of the ping packet which may lead to a misconception that the bandwidth was low.
These findings reasonably have clinical importance, when considering that the high prevalence of fatigue, reduced initiative and facial weakness in DM1, may lead to a misconception of a major depressive condition, comparable to misjudgements done in other neurological disorders [ 29].
The fact that the majority of the STI/RTI cases presented to public-practice doctors were male may lead to a misconception that STI/RTI in Hong Kong is essentially a problem of the male, which is not true.
Under such circumstances, gaining informed consent is not feasible and may lead to a common misconception that consent is not required for resuscitation, because it brings benefit and prevents harm, and the patient is unable to give or withhold consent.
When coupled with the observation that students may readily replace their intuitive notions of "essence" with a quasi-scientific notion of DNA (see Gelman and Rhodes, 2012), these extensions of essentialist thinking may lead to the last two misconceptions listed above.
Such misconceptions may lead to early formula supplement and breastfeeding cessation.
For example, our results suggest that addressing common student misconceptions may lead to higher learning gains.
Such misconceptions may lead to the use of ineffective STI protective strategies in place of effective, but less acceptable strategies, for example douching instead of condom use [ 20].
