More opportunities for students to make data comparisons, to create and interpret data representations and recognise their core distributional features and to read critically 'beyond the data' (cf. Curcio, 2010) are also in need of research and curriculum development.
For example, young people have poor mental health literacy [ 7- 9], reduced emotional competency, may lack the "skills to recognise, interpret and share emotional experiences" ([ 10], p. 14) and do not necessarily share a common understanding of the construct of "depression" which is tapped by certain depression screeners.
Charon suggests that health care workers need to develop "narrative competence", the ability to "recognise, absorb, interpret and be moved by the stories of illness" [ 29] and Kleinman has argued that "the interpretation of narratives of illness experience is "a core task in the work of doctoring, although the skill has atrophied in biomedical training" [ 28].
Much technical effort is currently focused on robots able to track and recognise people, interpret gestures and identify from a person's posture whether they are anxious or not feeling themselves (Cesta and Pecora 2005; Hacque and Prassle 2010; Perrin et al. 2010).
"The function of independent judges charged to interpret and apply the law is universally recognised as a cardinal feature of the modern democratic state, a cornerstone of the rule of law itself," he wrote in 2004.
The complementarity of multi-method research is well recognised in the literature, with findings from qualitative research helping to interpret and contextualise quantitative results [ 36- 38].
In recognising this position, observation from the tradition of ethnography to watch, interpret and evaluate the experiences of people with dementia on hospital wards was chosen as one of the methods of data collection (Nygard 2006; Tedlock 2000).
People interpret, and cheat.
The courts interpret and enforce them.
Regardless of methodological approach these, often otherwise exemplary studies, do not acknowledge the quite complex nature of how bodily sensations are recognised, interpreted and assigned meaning as symptoms, and how this affects the time estimates received.
