Patterns
Confidence Language
Evidence strength changes the grammar, not just a badge. High confidence earns causal verbs; medium earns observational framing; low earns hedges — and below the data minimum the system says it is still learning.
Rules
- 01High: direct causal framing. “Late luteal raises your recovery cost.”
- 02Medium: observational. “Your recovery tends to dip after back-to-back hard days.”
- 03Low: hedged. “…may be contributing.”
- 04No percentages, no decimals of certainty — words only.
- 05Pattern confidence (not “hormonal confidence”) gates how much cycle framing is shown at all.
Examples
Same finding, three confidences
High: “Heat sessions cost you the next day.” · Medium: “Hard heat sessions often precede low-energy days.” · Low: “Heat may be playing a role in this week's fatigue.”
Anti-patterns
What breaks this pattern
- “We're 87% sure” — false precision.
- Hedging everything equally — uniform caution reads as having no knowledge at all.
Do
- ·Match verb strength to evidence
- ·Keep the confidence word visible next to the claim
Don't
- ·Show numeric confidence
- ·Use alarm language at any confidence level