The phrase "perceived deficiency" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it to indicate that someone believes that something is lacking, even if that belief may not be accurate. For example, "The perceived deficiency in the student's work caused the teacher to lower his grade."
Analysis of deficiency in surgical skills in each specific ophthalmic surgical areas showed that areas perceived as more deficient were refractive surgery (65.9% of the subjects perceived deficiency) and orbit (59.2%).
But the four who preceded Representative Paul D. Ryan also had other strengths — and they were usually chosen in the hope of balancing out some perceived deficiency at the top of the ticket.
Back in early 2011, Ben Schaechter, Sam Grossberg and Paul Kompfner launched GoPollGo to address a perceived deficiency in analytics, geographical info and social integrations from the Web's go-to polling platforms.
The same lack of trust was similar in regards to a perceived deficiency in ethical standards among police by minority communities.
Yet another perceived deficiency could be the choice of reviews of bench studies as our comparison group.
Other areas of perceived deficiency included procedures, especially ICU and endoscopy, teaching skills, continuing self-education skills as well as administration and office management.
Negro girls must be vigilant about their perceived deficiencies.
Despite any of those perceived deficiencies, the bottom line is the conclusions still hold up.
The reasons for this rapid growth varied, but all focused on perceived deficiencies in traditional education.
The other, launched by the Mackay Conservation Group, is targeted at perceived deficiencies in the approval of the mine by the federal environment minister, Greg Hunt.
England are well coached, the staff work hard on addressing perceived deficiencies and they have the courage of their convictions.
