52. How Engineers Can Communicate Uncertainty Without Sounding Uncertain

“When you can measure what you are speaking about, and express it in numbers, you know something about it.” — William Thomson, Lord Kelvin, was one of the most influential physicists and engineers of the 19th century Engineers routinely work with probabilities, assumptions, incomplete data, forecasts, simulations, and technical risk. The challenge is to acknowledge what is unknown while remaining clear about what should be done. Research on risk communication consiste...