Even in the lab, human beings must interpret results, and those interpretations cannot be expunged of the interpreter's thought, language and culture.
Photo-interpretation results were verified by having 100 points within each zone reinterpreted by another photo-interpreter.
WHEN the work of a great artist like Mozart, Chekhov or Petipa is reconsidered by an inspired interpreter, the results often reveal new facets of an original masterpiece.
He was also critical of a French charity, France Terre d'Asile, which received over £500,000 from the UK government to identify victims of trafficking in the area, pointing out that they had failed to recruit enough interpreters, which "resulted in failure to establish a direct rapport and trust with the migrant community".
Although the clinicians' role as interpreter of results and provider of follow-up services will continue to be an integral part of genetic and genomic testing to contextualize the results in light of the individual patient's clinical history, with patients' increased access to results, it is important to consider their needs as well.
The decision not to use multiple raters was based on conclusions that inter-rater reliability of qualitative data does not guarantee reliability or validity of interpretations, and that a methodologically rigorous approach by a single interpreter will result in an accurate reflection of the phenomenon [ 22].
Additional limitations of the study include: lack of comparison of the data with alternative perspectives, possible errors of translation from Spanish to English, lack of verbal cues for interpretation, possible lingual and cultural misinterpretation, and unreflected bias of the interpreter of the results.
As one interpreter has noted in an academic article, "Puns based on a single word with multiple meanings in the source language should generally not be attempted by interpreters, as the result will probably not be funny".
In terms of having had the help of an interpreter, however, the results differed between the univariate and multivariate analyses, and the analyses should be interpreted with caution for this factor.
A zippy study of what gets lost in translation, literally and otherwise, when East meets West, this comedy earns its biggest laughs when English is rendered into Mandarin by interpreters and the botched results show up on a screen above the stage.
