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Verbal probabilities: Very likely to be somewhat more confusing than numbers

People interpret verbal expressions of probabilities (e.g. ‘very likely’) in different ways, yet words are commonly preferred to numbers when communicating uncertainty. Simply providing numerical translations alongside reports or text containing verbal probabilities should encourage consistency, but...

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Autores principales: Wintle, Bonnie C., Fraser, Hannah, Wills, Ben C., Nicholson, Ann E., Fidler, Fiona
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Public Library of Science 2019
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6469752/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30995242
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0213522