This is one thing that I disagree (implicitly perhaps) with Nate and other writers about. I do use epistemic statuses (including in an example above, which I linked just now). But I just don’t think epistemic statuses are sufficient for a lot of readers.
Signaling confidence all the way up when you’re object level uncertain comes across as a communicative error to me, in the sense that it predictably misleads most readers who aren’t carefully paying attention, and likely many readers who are.
If it’s about the whole post, epistemic status declaration are can be helpful in that regard.
This is one thing that I disagree (implicitly perhaps) with Nate and other writers about. I do use epistemic statuses (including in an example above, which I linked just now). But I just don’t think epistemic statuses are sufficient for a lot of readers.
Signaling confidence all the way up when you’re object level uncertain comes across as a communicative error to me, in the sense that it predictably misleads most readers who aren’t carefully paying attention, and likely many readers who are.