Societal trust and confidence in scientific assessments are influenced by uncertainty. A key feature of scientific assessments is therefore the treatment of uncertainty.
On January 24th 2019 the Uncertainty and Evidence Lab was involved in a workshop with the aim to introduce uncertainty and some methods to treat uncertainty in scientific assessments. The workshop was held at Durban Techincal University, South Africa. It was facilitated by Ullrika Sahlin, Lund University, and Dr Gordon O’Brien, the University of Mpumalanga. The focus was on quantitative methods to treat uncertainty in models, illustrated by findings related to the communication of uncertainty. Case-studies were taken from environmental sciences.
The workshop was attended by researchers from different disciplines.