Sentence examples for of a misperception from inspiring English sources

"I think there's a little bit of a misperception about that," Alderman says.

Because of a misperception that donation centers had more blood than they needed, donations since November have been far lower than normal, according to the center.

Health officials have said that in the earlier stages of the outbreak some postal workers, many of whom are black, were reluctant to take antibiotics because of a misperception that they were being used as human guinea pigs to test the drugs' effectiveness against anthrax.

Martin E. Sullivan, the director of the National Portrait Gallery, said Wednesday in a telephone interview that the removal of Mr. Wojnarowicz's work was the result of "a misperception that that video was about that artist intentionally wanting to do a sacrilegious piece on Christ or the crucifix or whatever".

Amy Argetsinger, who writes the Reliable Source column in The Washington Post, said there was "kind of a misperception that if you do something in D.C". it had to be "high-minded or good cause or educational: the panel discussion after documentary film or whatever".

"The advocates of GM technology are wrong when they say that public resistance is based on a misperception of risk," says George Gaskell, a sociologist at the London School of Economics.

We find that each percentage point misperception of the unemployment rate is associated with a wage decline of 0.7%% (see the results in columns 1 to 3)—a misperception of the labor market situation by 10 p.p. would thus result in a wage penalty of 7%%, which is a noteworthy impact, in particular if one keeps in mind that the average misperception is 13 p.p.

Instead, we argue that the relation between the visual information and the putting action is adjusted, rather than corrections being made for a misperception of the location of the target (see also Van Lier et al., 2011).

The concerns about Texas's fortunes speak to a misperception of the state's recent boom, and of California's bust.

In Experiment 1 we found that our method of applying vibration to the upper arm alters proprioceptive signaling and results in a misperception of limb state.

This is not quite the same, of course, as saying that certain kinds of dream imagery involve a misperception of bodily changes or that dreaming as such is caused by bodily sensations.