misperception
Americannoun
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The idea that any chair can simply impose their will is a misperception.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 17, 2026
“A central misperception among investors is conflating the fortunes of speculative crypto assets with the adoption trajectory of payment stablecoins,” Lau wrote.
From Barron's ● Mar. 16, 2026
Chatbots could challenge that misperception by reminding users how much they enjoyed a recent conversation and nudging them to reach out to friends and family.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 15, 2026
As he saw it, public understanding of depression as a chemical imbalance is vague, a “mishmash of buzzwords,” he wrote, and Moncrieff had used that misperception to attack the validity of antidepressants themselves.
From Salon ● May 23, 2025
Yet another misperception people have of mathematics is that it is limiting, and somehow opposed to human freedom.
From "Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences" by John Allen Paulos
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