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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

Authors of this article:

Paul K J Han1 Author Orcid Image ;   Elizabeth Scharnetzki1 Author Orcid Image ;   Aaron M Scherer2 Author Orcid Image ;   Alistair Thorpe3 Author Orcid Image ;   Christine Lary1 Author Orcid Image ;   Leo B Waterston1 Author Orcid Image ;   Angela Fagerlin3, 4 Author Orcid Image ;   Nathan F Dieckmann5 Author Orcid Image
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