ambiguity
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Brain power
Being vague won’t help you to influence others
In carefully planned experiments, researchers aimed to understand how people react to vague and direct answers to questions.
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Brain power
Ignorance: Vocabulary and taxonomy
How can we better understand ignorance? We can consider that ignorance is not simply the absence of knowledge, but is…
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Systems & complexity
Considering uncertainty, awareness and ambiguity as a three-dimensional space
The concept of unknown unknowns highlights the importance of introspection in assessing knowledge.
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Systems & complexity
The Ellsberg Paradox and the ambiguity and complexity of decision-making
The complexity of a task and differences in how individuals perceive a problem’s ambiguity are key determinants of behaviour.
