readers read and interpret

Science is often hard to read and most people assume that its difficulties are born out of necessity, out of the extreme complexity of scientific concepts, data and analysis.
Readers do not simply read but they interpret, then any piece of prose, no matter how short, may “mean” in 10 (or more) different ways to 10 different readers.
They make many of their most important interpretive decisions about the substance of prose based on clues from its structure.

George D. Gopen, Judith A. Swan, "The Science of Scientific Writing", American Scientist, vol 78, no 6 (Nov-Dec), p 550-558, 1 Nov 1990 (), url https://scholars.duke.edu/publication/881487 [20250125].