Under Daubert , the court is not supposed to review an expert's conclusions when deciding admissibility; rather, the court is to assess whether the methodology was properly applied. However, courts may give some scrutiny to the actual conclusions.

The U.S. Supreme Court has explained that "conclusions and methodology are not entirely distinct from one another." A court must examine the expert's conclusions to determine whether they could reliably flow from the facts known to the expert and the methodology used. "A court may conclude that there is simply too great a gap between the data and the opinion proffered." ¹⁸

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