The attention focusing explanation, however, relies on certain untested assumptions about the nature of the information contained in different films, Study 5 was designed to explore some of these assumptions.

In view of the importance to the affected families of their family life and their very survival, the Court's extreme deference to this untested assumption is simply inappropriate.

However, such forecasts about trends in drug-taking behaviour are, of necessity, based on several untested assumptions, and also need to be evaluated in the light of various practical considerations.

It was an extrapolation from an observation, and from the start it was filled with untested assumptions.

There is often an implicit, and untested, assumption that scaling doesn't affect experimental outcomes in microcosm studies [ 3 ] .

Critics have suggested that Cosmides and Tooby use untested evolutionary assumptions to eliminate rival reasoning theories and that their conclusions contain inferential errors.

Moreover, critics argue that Cosmides and Tooby's conclusions contain several inferential errors and that the authors use untested evolutionary assumptions to eliminate rival reasoning theories.

Policies and practices vary widely; they are based on myths and untested assumptions.

Kleinplatz wrote, "[T]he DSM criteria for diagnosis of unusual sexual interests as pathological rests on a series of unproven and more importantly, untested assumptions."

Perhaps - but in times of war no man accepts an untested assumption.