But they also need to be able to read and interpret data to get the end result we all want.

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Many people could not get jobs because they struggled to read graphs and interpret documents, while plumbers unable to do the calculations required to install an energy-efficient boiler might lose income, he suggested.

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The results go to the patient's doctor, and so on to her medical record, where insurance companies and employers may be able to read them, and interpret them as they like.

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"They're a test that relies on a human being to read a slide" and interpret what they see, Bowers says.

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"It's concerning to us, because we're worried that patients who really aren't experts and read this casually could interpret that the ACC endorse this as a first-line therapy, " says Weaver.

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As a consequence, there are those of faith who confuse mythos with logos - that is, they read a story or sacred text and interpret what is intended to be a symbolic aspect of spiritual life and treat it literally, as though the story happened historically or happened exactly as described.

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Apparently there are few geologists in the world who have the skill to interpret the logs and read the seismic data from the cretaceous to establish exactly what has been found 6 miles down.

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Now, thanks to the Target ruling, CAPTCHAs must also offer an audio option--a distorted recording of letters and numbers read aloud that's often far easier for a computer to interpret than a distorted image.

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