I view phrases from most scientific articles as if they were stated from somebody looking at a graph, or table, while speaking/writing.
For example, in a line graph of sexual encounters of individuals, there's a range between 0 and 50 for each month (or higher, who knows). Every value in that range is "normal"; however, that does not equate to those ranges being average.
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I view phrases from most scientific articles as if they were stated from somebody looking at a graph, or table, while speaking/writing.
For example, in a line graph of sexual encounters of individuals, there's a range between 0 and 50 for each month (or higher, who knows). Every value in that range is "normal"; however, that does not equate to those ranges being average.
Semantic. But so are scientific publications.