Research conducted by Professor Brandon Garrett and by Dr. Saul Kassin and his colleagues has examined the content of statements given by suspects who were later exonerated of the crimes to which they had originally confessed.
While most behaviors can be assessed using existing coding schemes, the list also includes a few behaviors that may require methods that examine the content of statements made by the patient.
As we have seen, they identified problems that were about meaning (focusing on the content of statements and their explanations), and about structure (focusing on the relationship between individual statements and their explanations).
The content of 11 statements is hopeless, the content of 9 statements is hopeful [ 31, 32].
This proposal can either be construed as a claim about the semantic content of meaning statements, or as a claim about the typical use of meaning statements.
The current study adds to the literature by investigating the content of applicants' statements on motivation for medical school and the ability of these statements to distinguish between applicants.
Though written statements do not have a prominent role in selection in the Netherlands (which may reduce the likelihood of applicants turning to professional agencies), the findings on the content of the statements in this study are consistent with findings observed in countries where the personal statement is given more importance.
This point is idealized in that it assumes that, somehow, we can manage to distill the empirical content of scientific statements independently of the contribution made by the mathematics that is often used to express such statements.
The team nephrologists, who had worked with Indigenous patients from remote communities, reviewed the content of the statements and the interviewing team and the nephrologists collectively worked on the final plain English versions of the statements.
Those sitting senators are, respectively, Tom Cotton, of Arkansas, and Ted Cruz, of Texas, and Obama was not exaggerating the tone or the content of their statements.
