Published on in Vol 23, No 4 (2021): April

Preprints (earlier versions) of this paper are available at https://preprints.jmir.org/preprint/27832, first published .
Communicating Scientific Uncertainty About the COVID-19 Pandemic: Online Experimental Study of an Uncertainty-Normalizing Strategy

Communicating Scientific Uncertainty About the COVID-19 Pandemic: Online Experimental Study of an Uncertainty-Normalizing Strategy

Communicating Scientific Uncertainty About the COVID-19 Pandemic: Online Experimental Study of an Uncertainty-Normalizing Strategy

Paul K J Han   1 , MD, MA, MPH ;   Elizabeth Scharnetzki   1 , DPhil ;   Aaron M Scherer   2 , DPhil ;   Alistair Thorpe   3 , DPhil ;   Christine Lary   1 , DPhil ;   Leo B Waterston   1 , MA ;   Angela Fagerlin   3, 4 , DPhil ;   Nathan F Dieckmann   5 , DPhil

1 Center for Outcomes Research and Evaluation, Maine Medical Center Research Institute, Portland, ME, United States

2 Division of General Internal Medicine, University of Iowa Carver College of Medicine, Iowa City, IA, United States

3 Department of Population Health Sciences, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT, United States

4 Salt Lake City VA Center for Informatics Decision Enhancement and Surveillance, Salt Lake City, UT, United States

5 School of Nursing, Oregon Health and Science University, Portland, OR, United States

Corresponding Author:

  • Paul K J Han, MD, MA, MPH
  • Center for Outcomes Research and Evaluation
  • Maine Medical Center Research Institute
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