Saturday, February 16, 2013
Room 312 (Hynes Convention Center)
The uncertainties associated with findings and judgments about scientific and technological matters bearing on the policy choices facing publics and their elected representatives have widely varying origins, characters, magnitudes (when quantifiable at all), and implications for the decisions that must be made. This presentation will draw on the speaker's experiences as a scientist/engineer long engaged in providing science and technology advice to the US government to tease out some of these distinctions to offer some thoughts about best practices in communicating uncertainties and their implications in this arena.