Abstract #300760

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JSM 2003 Abstract #300760
Activity Number: 323
Type: Topic Contributed
Date/Time: Wednesday, August 6, 2003 : 8:30 AM to 10:20 AM
Sponsor: Section on Statistics & the Environment
Abstract - #300760
Title: How to Tell the President the Facts
Author(s): Sally C. Morton*+ and Gerald van Belle*+ and Peter Preuss*+ and Haiganoush Krikorian Preisler*+ and Adrian F. Bremauntz*+
Companies: RAND Corporation and University of Washington and U.S. Environmental Protection Agency and USDA Forest Service and Instituto Nacional De Ecologia
Address: 1700 Main St., Santa Monica, CA, 90401-3208, Box 354691, Seattle, WA, 98195-4691, , Washington, DC, 20460, PO Box 245, Berkeley, CA, 94701-0245, Periferico Sur 500, Distrito Federal, , 04530, Mexico
Keywords: uncertainty ; communication
Abstract:

Statisticians and other scientists are often in the situation of having to explain scientific findings to decision makers, especially the uncertainty associated with them. In essence, this can amount to giving a 20-minute course in statistics to someone who would rather not hear about uncertainty. This panel will discuss such situations and some approaches to help make our profession better at this type of communication.

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