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Caveats and qualifications

What does this mean?

A sentence or paragraph in a research report indicating areas of potential weakness in a research finding.

Any finding, claim or assertion made gains enormously in power if it is not overstated, and thus is accompanied by a caveat or a relevant qualification. This can be done (as relevant) using a paragraph along the lines of:

‘These findings suggest that the number of people attending this sort of work has increased. However the research here was done over a Bank Holiday weekend. Since Bank Holidays typically seem to result in local residents leaving town, and in a greater number of visitors arriving in the town, this finding may not be representative of normal patterns.’