Even in the lab, human beings must interpret results, and those interpretations cannot be expunged of the interpreter's thought, language and culture.
These studies of basic biology are being linked to social psychology, such as the ways that different cultures interpret facial expressions and how those interpretations are reflected in brain activity.
My book, "Inheriting Abraham," grew out of this longstanding fascination with the ways different communities interpret the same Scriptures and how those interpretations, in turn, generate new narratives of their own.
However, most clinical decisions are more complex, requiring clinicians to simultaneously collect and interpret relevant information and to use those interpretations to guide subsequent data gathering.
How do you interpret the symbols and how accurate are those interpretations?
But video testimony has been interpreted by experts in other cases, and those interpretations have sometimes proved extremely consequential.
"Art can and should take liberties and interpret human experience in different ways, even if those interpretations make us uncomfortable", she states on the subject of Django Unchained, before taking Quentin Tarantino to task for taking liberties and making her uncomfortable.
Regardless of what imaging solutions are chosen, a major challenge is having trained providers on-site capable of making evidence-based decisions of when to use diagnostic imaging, how to interpret the images, and how to adjust treatment plans based on those interpretations.
As feedback is inevitably interpreted through the lens of one's self-perceptions it is important to understand how learners interpret, accept, and use feedback (or not) and the factors that influence those interpretations.
The term 'patient delay' should no longer be used – instead, 'appraisal interval' (time taken to interpret bodily changes/symptoms) and 'help-seeking interval' (time taken to act upon those interpretations and seek help) are more helpful in describing the 'patient interval' (see Figure 1).
Most studies reporting both 'appraisal intervals'timeime taken to interpret bodily changes/symptoms') and 'help seeking' intervals (time taken to act on those interpretations and seek help') [ 11] use tools that ignore existing models of patient behaviour [ 12, 13], are poorly or inadequately validated, and are open to bias.
