"odd conclusion" is a correct and usable phrase in written English.
You can use it in any context when you want to express something that is surprising or unexpected. For example: "The jury came to an odd conclusion: they acquitted the defendant despite overwhelming evidence of their guilt."
Sports psychology leads to the odd conclusion that sports may be good for athletes and bad for spectators.
Still, at the moment, the primary campaign is heading to an odd conclusion: two underdogs are setting a standard for an election that the two probable nominees are unlikely to meet.
In a series of tweets earlier this week, Axelrod concedes that there is "too much money in politics" but then reaches the odd conclusion that we should just give in and go the full Romney: Campaign finance system is a mess.Limits have just created a cottage industry for lawyers who devise schemes to circumvent them.
That seems an odd conclusion when, without Iraqi co-operation, there was no way to tell whether it was covering up past nuclear, chemical, biological and missile programmes, or concealing current ones.Why play it this way, when Iraq wanted sanctions lifted?
Rep. Marsha Blackburn of Tennessee said today that the Kermit Gosnell trial proves that federal funds should not be used for abortions — an especially odd conclusion to draw given that riders attached to appropriation bills already prohibit the use of federal funds for abortions, except in cases of rape or incest.
Most of the sweeping generalisations are thought-provoking and valid, but some can be peculiar: the Indians in the Jesuits' Paraguayan reductions had skirmishes against the Portuguese, which leads Mr Kamen to the odd conclusion that "without the amazing prowess of the Guarani soldiers, the power of Spain in South America could have been extinguished".
Some of the reports seem to reach odd conclusions.
It is only fair to add that the left does not have a monopoly on jumping to odd conclusions.
Last year's review is based on "biased assumptions", displays "odd" conclusions and fails to "adequately reflect the studies surveyed", they allege.
And he has a point, though not a terribly original one, when he says that the modern world has so many new actors that Western power is circumscribed.But Mr Khanna's analysis draws him to some odd conclusions.
Most of the time, she lets the information do the work, and confines her poetic urges to chapter headings and the odd, throwaway conclusion.
