"refute the assumption" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it whenever you believe an opinion or assumption to be false. For example, "Many people believe that teenagers are irresponsible; however, I refute the assumption by citing numerous examples of responsible teenage behaviour."
Here, we used a rather conservative approach for testing measurement invariance that is more likely to refute the assumption of MI.
Presently, there is no data available to refute the assumption that natural SBV infection results in long-term immunity.
In light of these methodological shortcomings, it is not possible to substantiate or refute the assumption of the superiority of PrT rehabilitation over other approaches.
There are no data to refute the assumption that natural SBV infection results in long-term immunity, as was seen earlier with natural infection of cattle with bluetongue virus serotype 8 (4 ).
Second, the reported summary statistics can help the reader to refute the assumption of normality, for example, when a strictly positive variable has a standard deviation close to or even larger than its mean.
Presently, there is no data available to refute the assumption that natural SBV infection results in long-term immunity [ 1], as was seen earlier with natural infection of cattle with bluetongue virus serotype 8 [ 5].
We anticipate that our seminar will result in a thorough review of the evidence emerging from multidisciplinary research to support or refute the assumptions underlying past policies.
He is the man who, most have decided, lives a life far weirder than anything anyone can say and so anyone can say anything, and he appears unable to do anything to refute the assumptions.
(Dargis) * 'TRISTRAM SHANDY: A COCK AND BULL STORY' (R, 91 minutes) Michael Winterbottom both confirms and refutes the assumption that Laurence Sterne's 18th-century masterpiece of digression could never be made into a movie by making a movie about the making of such a movie.
(Scott) * 'TRISTRAM SHANDY: A COCK AND BULL STORY' (R, 91 minutes) Michael Winterbottom both confirms and refutes the assumption that Laurence Sterne's 18th-century masterpiece of digression could never be made into a movie by making a movie about the making of such a movie.
Well, although LDL is an important risk factor for cardiovascular disease, we have already refuted the assumption that just because a drug reduces LDL it must improve patient outcomes.
