Word: misreadings
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...element that is very critical of the University. I thought it might get misread solely as a critique of Harvard, or a pity party where one feels bad for herself because she goes to Harvard College,” says Menendez...
...imam and a pizza-shop owner were nabbed for allegedly laundering cash they thought was from a terrorist plot Free on bail. Justice said, based on a note found in Iraq, that Imam Yassin Aref, left, was an al-Qaeda leader but later said it had misread brother in Kurdish as commander in Arabic
...differently. Italian researchers recruited 49 shy third- and fourth-graders and asked them to identify emotion in the facial expressions of other children in a video-game format. The shyest kids had difficulty identifying expressions that were either hostile or neutral. Joy, on the other hand, was almost never misread...
Frequently, Ferguson says, teachers misread signals from black students. "The course work is rigorous at these schools, even in nonhonors classes, and I think many of these kids are struggling," he explains. "Some of the behavior that others infer as laziness is really a way of playing it off. If the work is hard and they're not doing well, in the students' minds it's better to act like they don't care rather than acknowledge that they're trying hard and still can't do it." The problem becomes more damaging when teachers interpret such behavior as indifference...
...intelligence has an importance like never before, so does the CIA, and not just to the President. Nothing proved its significance like the invasion of Iraq, the first time the U.S. has gone to war largely on the basis of intelligence alone--much of it faulty, flimsy or grossly misread...