leaking pen <itsat...@gmail.com> wrote: WASHINGTON — The Energy Department concluded with "low confidence" that the Covid-19 > pandemic > <https://www.nbcnews.com/news/world/covid-19-urges-investigation-chinese-wuhan-lab-leak-theory-rcna32910> > "likely" > originated from a laboratory leak > <https://www.nbcnews.com/science/science-news/lab-leak-theory-science-scientists-rcna1191> > in > Wuhan . . . >
> Thats... not how reports work. On the question of, is it likely that > covid came from a lab leak, the data says, low confidence. > > That means NO. it did not . > Putting aside the issue of COVID, I think the expression: "conclude with low confidence that X is likely . . ." . . . is a convoluted way of saying: "X is probably true, but the evidence is thin and it is only somewhat probable. Slightly more probable than not." It is a confusing, poorly framed way of saying this, but I think that is what it means. I wouldn't want to have to translate it into Japanese.
