Comments by "Peter deWolf" (@StoneShards) on "Kellyanne Conway: 'Extraordinary' Rice email threw Comey 'under the bus'" video.
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"...difficult to know what fruit it might bear..."? In engineering, you run into the notion of "error stacking"; and, internal to the discipline, it's a big deal. To illustrate: what happens when you multiply to numbers, each having different error values? The measured width of a box is 12 in, ±0.1 in, and the length, 5 in, ±0.1 in; so the area of the box, A = W x L, properly includes the multiplied errors...they "stack" up in the resultant. In this quoted phrase, we have factors with huge in-built error, which multiply as the sentence is assembled. "Difficult" compounded with "might" produces a woefully vague semantic value--in a word, "FLUFF"...
But, of course, the language is glossed over as if it makes sense...
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