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SUBMITTER: van der Bles AM
PROVIDER: S-EPMC7149229 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Apr
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
van der Bles Anne Marthe AM van der Linden Sander S Freeman Alexandra L J ALJ Spiegelhalter David J DJ
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 20200323 14
Uncertainty is inherent to our knowledge about the state of the world yet often not communicated alongside scientific facts and numbers. In the "posttruth" era where facts are increasingly contested, a common assumption is that communicating uncertainty will reduce public trust. However, a lack of systematic research makes it difficult to evaluate such claims. We conducted five experiments-including one preregistered replication with a national sample and one field experiment on the <i>BBC News< ...[more]