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Tag Archives: confusion
Error and Uncertainty Lead to Confidence
Article by Davis Jacobson
“Doubt is our product, since it is the best means of competing with the ‘body of fact’ that exists in the minds of the general public. It is also the means of establishing a controversy.”
–Brown and Williamson, 1969 (internal memorandum, found here)
It is often lamented that there are misunderstandings of scientific findings in the general public. There’s no … Read more
Posted in The Science-Minded Citizen
Tagged accuracy, confidence, confusion, doubt, error, interval, mathematical, measurements, precision, scientific, uncertainty
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