exercise for the reader

exercise for the reader

A subject, debate, or other matter that is not decided or dealt with directly by the author or presenter, but rather is left up to the judgment or interpretation of the observer, reader, or addressee. The report merely details the spending practices of the parties concerned; whether or not these payments were dubious in nature is left as an exercise for the reader. The politician's speech made broad references to invigorating the economy with practical, no-nonsense measures—what such measures might be, though, was left as an exercise for the reader.
See also: exercise, reader
Farlex Dictionary of Idioms.
See also:
  • reader
  • sit in judgment on
  • sit in judgment on (one)
  • the bull must be taken by the horns
  • benefit of the doubt
  • let he that is without sin cast the first stone
  • let he who is without sin cast the first stone
  • let him that is without sin cast the first stone
  • let him who is without sin cast the first stone
  • be/come under fire
References in periodicals archive
We'll leave that as an exercise for the reader. Bobaflex performs with special guests Romantic Rebel, Nemus Of Nex and What They Left Behind at 6 p.m.
'Guns' blazing
Exercise for the reader: spot all the things that are wrong with that sentence.
2013: The Cyprus Mail has been inundated this year with stories of families shoddily treated by the migration department
The book contains several typos; finding them is left as an exercise for the reader.
Prisoners of Hope: How Engineers and Others Get Lift for Innovating
Each chapter ends with an exercise for the reader to try out, which may enable her to experience the power of the ideas described in the chapter.
Literature and Therapy: A Systemic View
Brooke's actions sadden Charlie but reflect her own true desires; determining their "rightness" is an exercise for the reader.
Calonita, Jen. Reality Check
Similarly, the duality between stochastic differential equations and partial differential equations via the Feynman-Kac formula is an important result that could have been provided as part of the chapter rather than an exercise for the reader to prove (Chapter 3).
Simulation Techniques in Financial Risk Management
This advice is far more specific than that given in most management books, building on the information it has developed, rather than creating a new, overarching theory of management whose application in the real-world is left as an exercise for the reader.
Leading Geeks
An integrated analysis of how states respond to external threats is left to future work (or, perhaps, as an exercise for the reader).
In the Shadow of Power: States and Strategies in International Politics
The derivation is "left as an exercise for the reader" if you are really hard up for something to do.
Lesson 4: the basic link for all EW functions
Its proper identification is left as an exercise for the reader.
The Man Who Sold the Milky Way: A Biography of Bart Bok
Even if that thought is usually left as an exercise for the reader, Cohodas has done us a service by assembling the raw materials.
Strom Thurmond and the Politics of Southern Change