Research from Joseph Ripberger and the University of Oklahoma's Center for Risk and Crisis Management found that the public can interpret the term 'possible' or 'possibly' as representing probabilities ranging from 10% to 90%.
Sources
- [PDF] Severe Mesoscale Analysis Experiment - Final Report - NOAA VLab (vlab.noaa.gov)
- https://www.aos.wisc.edu/~sco/2015/parker/Ripberger_2015.pdf (aos.wisc.edu)
- http://crcm.ou.edu/pubs/RipbergerEtAl2014.pdf (crcm.ou.edu)
More in Psychology
- A survey by Nederhof and Zwier found that 87.6% of active psychology researchers agreed that social psychologists had shown much concern about the state of their discipline, while 34.1% still agreed that 'there is a crisis in social psychology.'
- People are more likely to throw away trash in a garbage can painted decoratively than in a plain garbage can.
- In death investigations across 18 U.S. states from 2003–2014, approximately 9% of suicide decedents had evidence of chronic pain at the time of death.
- Between 1980 and 2012, jobs requiring high levels of social interaction increased by nearly 12 percentage points as a share of the U.S. labor force.
- Using comparable skill measures and covariates from the NLSY79 and NLSY97 surveys, David Deming found that the labor-market return to social skills was much greater in the 2000s than in the mid-1980s and 1990s.
- The article's two questionnaire studies found that the relative prevalence of the three attachment styles in adulthood is roughly the same as the prevalence reported for infancy.