Chamath Palihapitiya

We curate our lives around this perceived sense of perfection, because we get rewarded in these short term signals: Hearts, likes, thumbs up. We conflate that with value, and we conflate it with truth, and instead, what it really is is fake, brittle popularity that's short term and leaves you even more vacant and empty before you did it.

American Businessman

Mark Walport

People have extreme beliefs about whether it is right for humans to tamper with embryos in any way at all. Sometimes the values discussion gets conflated with the science discussion. We shouldn't pretend we're having an argument about science when we're having an argument about values.

British Scientist

Tara Westover

I do think we have collectively begun to conflate the institutions of education for education itself. Education is an individual's pursuit of understanding and has a lot of implications for that person, for the kind of person that they are.

American Historian

Sam Kean

The amygdala is one of those brain structures that a lot of people know a little bit about, and there's a definite tendency to conflate the amygdala and the fear response itself - as if the amygdala, and the amygdala alone, 'causes' fear.

American Writer

Josh Radnor

I think the word 'earnest' kind of has a negative connotation on some level. I think one of the things that's happened is that being cynical is somehow conflated with being sophisticated. I think that's problematic, to say the least.

American Director

Oliver Luck

We've conflated football games with patriotic zeal. I don't think attending a football game is any more patriotic than walking down the street to my local library. It's just another activity we all enjoy.

Satya Nadella

In the past, there was hardware, software, and platforms on top of which there were applications. Now they're getting conflated. That is all going to get disrupted by the move to the cloud.

Miranda July

Women writers are often conflated with their narrators - as if we can't consciously construct fictional worlds from the ground up and can only write diary entries.

Euny Hong

It's a classic error in American discourse: the conflation of race with culture.

American Journalist

David Lowery

I often conflate the domestic and the cosmic on a daily basis.

Use 'conflate' when incorrect merging oversimplifies complex things.

Incorrect Merging

Beware of 'conflate' suggesting an oversimplification that may lead to misunderstandings.

Overgeneralizing Danger

'Conflate' points out incorrect or inappropriate combinations, not just any mixture.

Suitability Matters

Highlight when two distinct items are wrongly perceived as identical using 'conflate'.

Common Confusions

Point out the need for distinction when 'conflate' indicates that clarity is lost.

Clarity Needed

Use 'conflate' to teach the importance of not assuming similarity where none exists.

Avoid Assumptions

 were on everyone's lips. So Shakespeare must have known he had potent material when he conflated and adapted the stories of a murderous 11th century Scottish King named Macbeth and those of several other Scottish nobles.

Why should you read...

 to protect us and the common good. The mistake that governments are making when they collaborate in this way with industry is that they conflate the common good

In praise of conflict PIPE...

 I think people conflate two different things here when they talk about the moving frontier of space exploration if you're going to advance a space frontier