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Daniele de Rigo
Daniele de Rigo
@dderigo@hostux.social  ·  activity timestamp last month

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This attitude reminds the first, perhaps most obvious, of the four "coping strategies" on #uncertainty in the #SciencePolicyInterface, as discussed by @Jeroen_van_der_Sluijs [2]

"Monster-exorcists want to expel the monster. Uncertainty simply does not fit within symbolical order where #science is seen as the producer of authoritative objective #knowledge" [2]

Variant: "keeping the uncertainties in knowledge claims deliberately under the table because they do not fit a political agenda" [2]

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Daniele de Rigo
Daniele de Rigo
@dderigo@hostux.social replied  ·  activity timestamp last month

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This attitude reminds the first, perhaps most obvious, of the four "coping strategies" on #uncertainty in the #SciencePolicyInterface, as discussed by @Jeroen_van_der_Sluijs [2]

"Monster-exorcists want to expel the monster. Uncertainty simply does not fit within symbolical order where #science is seen as the producer of authoritative objective #knowledge" [2]

Variant: "keeping the uncertainties in knowledge claims deliberately under the table because they do not fit a political agenda" [2]

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Daniele de Rigo
Daniele de Rigo
@dderigo@hostux.social replied  ·  activity timestamp last month

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However, "findings can be overturned when new evidence arises" [3]:

"how communicating and explaining #uncertainty around scientific findings affect trust in the communicator when findings change" was found [3] not to be so obvious as in the "default" guess [1].

Sometimes, "communicating uncertainty buffers against a loss of trust when evidence changes" and "explaining uncertainty does not appear to harm trust" [3]

A commentary by @hildabast on the study [3] offers a broader perspective

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