Day trading is predicated on a fundamental misconception about the nature of stock prices, namely that they are somehow persistent and predictable.

Look, there is a fundamental misconception here that money not paid in tax simply vanishes into the aether.

The last point is, of course, pure speculation, and it rests on two fundamental misconceptions.

Much of the fear about Indian Point is based on a fundamental misconception.

This is a fundamental misconception.

That is a fundamental misconception.

Ms. Meade's book is based on fundamental misconceptions.

While the problem was addressed more than a decade ago, and calls for educational reform continue, students still graduate from statistics classes holding fundamental misconceptions about hypothesis testing.

They argue that "the current orthodoxy" is based on a "fundamental misconception" that the aim is to develop skills at the expense of historical knowledge.

Feeley says there are fundamental misconceptions about New Zealand's ranking as one of the world's least corrupt countries.