(Stuart, for example, interprets the Torah as forbidding anal intercourse but not other homosexual practices).
Giacometti's "Palace at 4 A.M ., for example, interprets the artist's vision not in terms of the external public world but in an enigmatic, private language.
The Letter of Barnabas (c. 100 ad), for example, interprets the dietary laws prescribed in the Book of Leviticus as forbidding not the flesh of certain animals but rather the vices imaginatively associated with those animals.
Late in life, Adret became embroiled in a quarrel between the followers of the medieval Jewish philosopher Maimonides and the members of a conservative, antirationalist movement led by a zealot known as Astruc of Lunel, who believed that the followers of Maimonides were undermining the Jewish faith by, for example, interpreting the Bible allegorically.
Ambrose, for example, interpreted the Pythagorean "do not take the public path" to mean that priests should live lives of exceptional purity (Ep. 81).
For example, interpreting that when we reject the null hypothesis, we get support for the (alternative) research hypothesis is not totally correct, since a significant result does not indicate the magnitude of the effect, so the statistical hypothesis does not report on the significance of data (Hager, 2000; Finch, Cumming, & Thomason, 2001).
In this role they can assist with, for example, interpreting research objectives to participants to ensure that consent is informed and the rights of subjects are respected.
For example, interpreting mtDNA phylogeny should proceed with caution because this locus is highly prone to selective sweeps due to its single locus nature and the general lack of recombination.
In contrast, peer reviewers (ideally) focus on the validity of the actual scientific content and reporting, and flag for the editor failings in the methods (for example, in the experimental design and statistical analysis) or reasoning (for example, interpreting the results within the context of previous knowledge).
One homeless man for example interpreted, and hence rationalised, his symptoms in the context of his everyday life and (mis) attributed his symptoms to drug withdrawal: I didn' t have a clue.... sweating at night I put down to alcohol, the coughing down to smoking and um feeling unwell, down to withdrawal from um, the heroin [ID05].
