Oh I see Maddie, and I know sometimes it can be hard to get those clarifications during a reading, before you run out of time. Or like for me sometimes it just doesn't occur to me until later on that something doesn't make sense.
Something to remember about channeling, whether they are channeling a person or someone who has passed or something more like a spirit guide - most of what they convey still gets filtered through the channel's own knowledge and experience. It would be hard for them to pass on a message word for word if it was alien to their own experience.
Like to give a wild example...if you were asking someone to channel instructions from a computer technician how to repair a PC, they probably wouldn't be able to do it - unless they have experience repairing computers themselves - but otherwise it would be hard for them to conceptualize the knowledge and put it into words for you.
Empaths can be really good at verbalizing feelings - because that's their natural medium - and sometimes they can do it EVEN when the person they are reading is not good at verbalizing their own feelings. But they may not pick up so accurately on other things that are not so feeling-oriented, like practical or logistical problems in that person's life.
And the reader also may not understand feelings that are related to situations they have never been in or have no concept of - they could FEEL those feelings but not fully understand what is going on or be able to verbalize it.
For me Judi just wasn't good with practical matters or actual events. And after going through my old notes I could see how she might have been picking up on my ex's feelings, and maybe getting a phrase right here and there, but she wasn't getting more concrete things like life circumstances accurately...so her "channeling" on those things was way off. I can give some examples via PM if it helps you or anyone else.
She was really confident that he would respond back to me when I wrote to him - and I wasn't confident at all because I had already been through that before - but when I questioned it she said there was like a 90% probability he would respond. She would give out percentages like that on predictions and usually they were off.
I am tempted to say if she gives anyone a probability percentage, it is more likely the opposite of what she says, but then that doesn't help if it's 50/50.