To add further confusion, different measurement tools have different definitions, which means that while quantitativeinformation is given, it may not be as reliable as one would like.
Microarrays also obtain genetic information from microbes in soil or water, and while less quantitative than qPCR, this method can analyze tens of thousands of genes at once.
By using quantitative data contained in repositories such as the box score of a baseball game, their technology systematically converts the information contained within into a journalistic narrative that is indistinguishable from that produced by a human writer.