Communicating uncertainty about facts, numbers and science.

R Soc Open Sci · 2019 · PMC6549952 · PMID 31218028

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an observed trendno p-value reported

36]. Likelihood provides calibrated language (panel a) for describing quantified uncertainty for a single event, a climate parameter, an observed trend or projected future change.

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marginally significantno p-value reported

The results across these studies were inconsistent: their first research [ 134 ] found a decrease in cancer fatalism and a marginally significant decrease in nutritional backlash for people who had read news stories that contained higher levels of scientific uncertainty.

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