Alquist describes one experiment in which people were given a list of completely made-up topics and asked how familiar they were with each of them. People who were the most uncomfortable with ...

Imagine you are about to confront a friend about a hurtful comment she made and are trying to predict her response. Depending ...

We study how uncertainty propagates through production networks. First, we construct a highly disaggregated, forward-looking measure of industry-level uncertainty using option-implied volatility data ...

The Large Hadron Collider is one of the biggest experiments in history, but it’s also one of the hardest to interpret. Unlike ...

Because during times of economic uncertainty, the measurable short-term savings of cutting innovation are immediately visible, while the catastrophic long-term costs remain conveniently invisible ...

We tend to think that people hate uncertainty. While this is generally true, communicating about uncertainty increases trust. Public communicators need to do a better job.

The experiment Linköping University’s Joakim Argillander and Daniel Spegel-Lexne were part of the team that investigated the relationship between quantum uncertainty and wave–particle duality.

Our deep-seated discomfort with uncertainty—a discomfort rooted not in just in technology but in our very biology—was vividly demonstrated in a 2017 experiment where London-based researchers ...

Little is known of how teens learn about emotions online and then use that knowledge to cope with social uncertainty during in-person encounters.

Physicists argue that uncertainty in the thermodynamic parameters themselves - built into equations that govern the energetic behavior of the system - may also influence the outcome of an experiment.

Physicists identify overlooked uncertainty in real-world experiments Date: January 15, 2024 Source: Santa Fe Institute Summary: The rules of statistical physics address the uncertainty about the ...

What’s often interpreted as uncertainty in measurement may be uncertainty in the parameters in disguise. Maybe an experiment was done near a window where the sun was shining, and then repeated ...