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Originally Posted by yorkietalkjilly  "Confusion" is a particularly descriptive term of how I felt after reading the things I did back in 2011 about the whole process and which tests were effective, how they were handled, processed and interpreted by the lab/vet and then what that actually told them about that dog's immune response to that disease on that day vs. next month or upon a sudden insult of infection, etc. There seemed to be much surmising and assuming, uses of words like "may", "likely" and "probable", etc., in final statements at the ends of articles that I was left feeling I knew very little more than when I began. |
That's just scientific writing, they HAVE to write tentatively, there are very few absolutes, but the margin of area is really small and especially since all tests have to be replicated. That is the way I was taught to write when interpreting results. It's only the amateur who is 100% certain.