Facilitating sender-receiver agreement in communicated probabilities: Is it best to use words, numbers or both?

Organizations tasked with communicating expert judgments couched in uncertainty often use numerically bounded linguistic probability schemes to standardize the meaning of verbal probabilities. An experiment (N = 1,202) was conducted to ascertain whether agreement with such a scheme was better when p...

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Main Authors: David R. Mandel, Daniel Irwin
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Society for Judgment and Decision Making 2021-03-01
Series:Judgment and Decision Making
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Online Access:http://journal.sjdm.org/20/200930/jdm200930.pdf