assumptions

The proliferation of judges appointed by Mr. Trump and the dominance of conservative jurists on the Supreme Court have thrown past precedent and legal assumptions into some doubt.

She said there were assumptions people made about her in school, which some asked to her face.

Many of his voters may have possessed false nostalgia about his first term and false assumptions that his policies would not primarily enrich the wealthiest among us.

"Accent bias is one of the biggest issues. And they made assumptions from our accents on our intelligence levels and whether we would be friends or not," she said.

To make up for such issues, many of the most high-profile polls now function more like models, with firms weighting responses from different groups and making other assumptions about factors such as turnout.