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.
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.