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Replace the term "confirmed by" with "in line with"? #85

Open hlesaint opened 4 years ago

hlesaint commented 4 years ago

"Confirmed by" is a strong statement, which limits the use of positive relations by very accurate people. For instance, when the same treatment leads to the same results in mice and rats you cannot claim that the one confirms the other, only that there is a positive relation. Therefore, we might think about renaming "confirmed by" for the sake of good usage.

Potential alternatives:

  1. related to: neutral, positive, negative > bit boring, but principally correct
  2. related to, in line with, in contrast to > accords to the semantics of scientific writing, as well as: in support of, supportive of, in agreement with, in favor of
tgetgood commented 4 years ago

What about "corroborates" / "is corroborated by"? I'll think of other synonyms.

One thing that bugs me about the confirmed by relations is that it isn't symmetric, since it has a time element. The others; related to and in contrast to, are easily symmetric. Maybe "in line with" is better.