Communicating Scientific Uncertainty About the COVID-19 Pandemic: Online Experimental Study of an Uncertainty-Normalizing Strategy

• Main Authors: Han, Paul K J (Author), Scharnetzki, Elizabeth (Author), Scherer, Aaron M (Author), Thorpe, Alistair (Author), Lary, Christine (Author), Waterston, Leo B (Author), Fagerlin, Angela (Author), Dieckmann, Nathan F (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: JMIR Publications, 2021-04-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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BackgroundCommunicating scientific uncertainty about public health threats such as COVID-19 is an ethically desirable task endorsed by expert guidelines on crisis communication. However, the communication of scientific uncertainty is challenging because of its potential to promote ambiguity aversion...