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The Results section of your paper is intended for readers who don't feel confident analyzing your data and conclusions based on figures alone, or who prefer verbal information in addition to visual.
In addition to providing not one iota of support for any of his sweeping statements, his conclusion from the Stanford study (cited in his piece) didn't follow, since it found that a basic sense of humor was common to both women and men but women tended to enjoy punchlines more, prefer verbal wordplay, and were more discriminating about what they found funny.
Indeed a proportion of patients prefer verbal descriptions of risk (e.g. likely, almost certain) [ 14].
Similarly, by purposes like reassuring or persuading, GPs may prefer verbal formats, as was shown e.g. for clinical geneticists [ 45].
Asked for a personal opinion, the physician may prefer verbal communication formats to others, taking the risk of inducing different meanings and confusion in patients.
One policy-maker (participant 7, male) stated that cultural factors might be at play here; as a " verbal society" many policy-makers prefer verbal reports to documentation, and place more importance on information that is provided to them by individuals who are highly respected, than documents from a removed source.
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Mr Steinbrenner prefers verbal volleys to flying boots: he once called Hideki Irabu, a pitcher, a "fat pussy toad".
Publishers also told the BBC that Amazon generally prefers verbal agreements, and rarely documents its negotiations, but had done so in the latest round of talks, with one "mid-tier" firm saying this was the first time it had received correspondence outlining such terms.
There was one study, however, where the views of parents of children with more general healthcare needs were explored; they found that parents preferred verbal 'one-to-one' information but supplemented with written materials [ 22].
Preferences for type of scale differed: the less experienced GPs preferred the verbal scale, the most experienced preferred the numerical scale, with the groups in between having a preference for the combined verbal-numerical scale.
According to Dayton (1996), BIN is most commonly found with, and is preferred with, verbal predicates.
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