Sentence examples for misconception I from inspiring English sources

All these patients who were searching for understanding had a misconception, I think, of what empathy is all about.

For the first misconception, I blame school dinners; for the second, Popeye the Sailor Man, who could open a can with one clench of his muscles.

"I had thought a man turned homosexual when there was not the right woman to save him, a misconception I had developed from the tragic union of Rimbaud and the poet Paul Verlaine," she writes, adding that she mistakenly considered homosexuality "a poetic curse" that "irrevocably meshed with affectation and flamboyance".

Another misconception: I see this tweet a lot.

That D.C. statehood is unconstitutional is the single most common misconception I hear when discussing D.C. governance with Congressional staff and opponents of D.C. voting rights generally.

"There's a misconception, I think, that people are supposed to walk away from a therapy session feeling great and I don't think that's true," Georgoulis said.

Twenty-seven (54%) of our students began this activity with misconceptions (i.e., gave responses scored as either "definitely" or "probably" containing a misconception).

Many students will present answers that are based on misconceptions, i.e., the giraffes "needed" to lengthen their necks because their food was high in the trees, and therefore, the necks eventually grew longer over time.

Additionally, use of previously developed assessments will facilitate assessment of student misconceptions (i.e., Meir et al., 2007; Sandvik, 2008; Catley et al., 2013) This study calls attention to the lack of understanding and difficulty high school students have attending to phylogenetics.

The extended time frame between studies (12 yr), the similarities in students' responses across the years, and the students' certainty about the correctness of their (incorrect) responses all illustrate the persistence and tenacity of students' misconceptions (i.e., alternative ideas, naive ideas) regarding the processes of osmosis and diffusion.

But he added, "If there weren't any misconceptions, I might have to promote a few".