Communicating uncertainty in research is hard, so we worked on how best to do it – here’s what you can watch out for

Uncertainty is part of the scientific process, and it’s not a bad thing – it’s where future discoveries can happen.

By: Matthew Facciani, Yale University; Aleeza Gerstein, University of Manitoba; Kristi Heather Kenyon, University of Winnipeg, and S. Michelle Driedger, University of Manitoba, The Conversation

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Published: August 28, 2026

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By Matthew Facciani, Yale University; Aleeza Gerstein, University of Manitoba; Kristi Heather Kenyon, University of Winnipeg, and S. Michelle Driedger, University of Manitoba

Earlier this summer, the four of us spent three days in a room with a dozen others whose jobs sound nothing like ours, or like each other’s: a cosmologist, an emergency management scholar, a genetic counselor, a hydrologist, a neuropsychologist, a health risk communication scholar, a

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