Statistics & Data Science · Data Literacy & Statistical Misuse
A topic within Data Literacy & Statistical Misuse, itself one of 11 topics in that field and part of Statistics & Data Science.
2 works
David Spiegelhalter (The Royal Institution)
Argues that uncertainty is a property of our knowledge rather than of the world, and that how a risk is expressed changes the decision people make from identical numbers.
link checked 17 Sept 2026Anne Marthe van der Bles et al.
Proposes a framework distinguishing the different kinds of uncertainty behind a number - about the estimate, about the evidence, about the science itself - and reviews evidence that stating uncertainty honestly does not, contrary to common fear, destroy public trust.
link checked 17 Sept 2026