Mike Lean & Roy Taylor on improving T2D classification

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Amity Island said:
To me, it appears "appears" is the problem though. It either has been done or not. If one is not sure or doesn't have the experience or training to know if something has been done, then say we are not sure, or we don't have the expertise to say etc, rather being non-committal and saying appears to have been done or it appears to work.

After the past 3 years, I'd like to see more honesty and candor in what we are told and recommended.
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He is being honest. It appears to him that it was accounted for properly. So from the information available to him, he doesn't think the mistake he has talked about in this (article? Book? I've forgotten now) was made. But he is protecting himself on the (hopefully small) chance that there were inaccuracies in the information he used to come to the conclusion.

To give you an example from my day job. I will often write that "development appears age appropriate". That means that at that contact which I had with the child, which may or may not have included a formal development assessment, they seemed to be doing all (or enough of) the things that we would expect them to be doing at their age, and not doing things that we would not expect a normal neurotypical child to not be doing. But it doesn't entirely eliminate the possibility that they may already have something underlying (such as a neurodiverse condition or a learning disability) that may become obvious when they are older and expectations of them increase. So I use "appears" to mean that in my best clinical judgment everything is ok but I cannot guarantee that there isn't something under the surface.
 
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He is being honest. It appears to him that it was accounted for properly. So from the information available to him, he doesn't think the mistake he has talked about in this (article? Book? I've forgotten now) was made. But he is protecting himself on the (hopefully small) chance that there were inaccuracies in the information he used to come to the conclusion.

To give you an example from my day job. I will often write that "development appears age appropriate". That means that at that contact which I had with the child, which may or may not have included a formal development assessment, they seemed to be doing all (or enough of) the things that we would expect them to be doing at their age, and not doing things that we would not expect a normal neurotypical child to not be doing. But it doesn't entirely eliminate the possibility that they may already have something underlying (such as a neurodiverse condition or a learning disability) that may become obvious when they are older and expectations of them increase. So I use "appears" to mean that in my best clinical judgment everything is ok but I cannot guarantee that there isn't something under the surface.
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I understand that.

I'm just suffering from media and political burn out. Seen the "appears", "may" and "possibly" too many times over the pandemic. As a result, I'm now a bit more aware of terms like those and what they can mean.
 
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nonethewiser said:
Just be careful you don't end up ill with it that's all, seen it happen before with people who get obsessed with a subject.
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I totally understand where you are coming from, I appreciate that. But I wouldn't describe the way the past three years has been dealt with and the long term effects its had upon us all, be it financial, health or trust as a "subject". The only thing that is going to make us ill is ignoring everything, turning a blind eye and sweeping it all under the carpet.

For me, truth, integrity, love, kindness are what makes us truly human. This for me is effortless and leaves one with a clear conscience.

"Truth will out".
 
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