But not entirely: the prevailing assumption in financial markets and among foreign investors is that eventually Britain will give up the pound.
Did it float over on ocean currents from Africa, the prevailing assumption until about 10 years ago, or did humans carry the plant with them when they walked across the Bering land bridge from Asia? "It was a real puzzle," says Bruce Smith, an archaeologist at the Smithsonian Institution's National Museum of Natural History in Washington, D.C.
Until more evidence is sought and presented to disprove the apparently prevailing assumption of the null hypothesis that the e-interventions do not introduce risk, it is premature to conclude that we can fail to reject it.
Interpreted under the prevailing assumption of substantial introgressive hybridization between M and S, these results suggested that the genes responsible for ecological and reproductive isolation were few in number and mainly confined to three isolated "speciation islands," the largest two of which coincided with low recombination regions near centromeres on chromosome 2 and the X.
When it comes to penis size and sex the prevailing assumption, especially amongst men, is that bigger is better.
Before that, Jews were generally willing to work within the prevailing assumption that government should be supportive of religion, rather than neutral toward it.
The prevailing assumption is that no one outside the industry would know what to do with a huge rough diamond or how to properly value it.
The prevailing assumption is that a fundamental lifestyle change is unnecessary: being green means paying extra for organic produce and driving a hybrid.
The prevailing assumption in the industry is that Enron has to work on Broadway on the strength of buzz and critical acclaim alone.
But the prevailing assumption in their field is that we shouldn't, or perhaps can't, make objective judgments about which options are better than others.
