Craig is spot on, “But it is all about framing your text so that your audience will care.” I’m a Developmental Biologist so I’m fortunate to be able to tie things up into a bit of a story with less quantitative data. When I do need to include such data, such as statistics generated from microarray data, I always tell the audience how genes they know already are behaving in the statistical data. This gives them a comfortable framework on which to base a judgment on the new information I want to give them next. When I see someone try to bulldoze the audience with too much data and jargon, I come away with the idea that they don’t know what the hell they are talking about. If they can’t distill the data into knowledge, then they are not contributing to the field. It is just noisy chatter. Best of luck to you!!