What is hedging and how much should I do?
Hedging qualifies a claim to match your evidence: suggests, appears to, may indicate. It is necessary because data rarely supports absolute statements. Too much produces claims so qualified they assert nothing, and stacking hedges such as may possibly tend to is a recognizable weakness.
This comes up on Academic Writing Style, where it is answered in the context of the work itself.
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