Selection of verbal probabilities: A solution for some problems of verbal probability expression

Artificial intelligence and statistics

1989 • 797 citations

How probable is probable? A numerical translation of verbal probability expressions

1982 • 522 citations

Measuring the vague meanings of probability terms.

1986 • 493 citations

Verbal probabilities: Ambiguous, context-dependent, or both?

1988 • 318 citations

Consistency in interpretation of probabilistic phrases

1985 • 311 citations

Empirical scaling of common verbal phrases associated with numerical probabilities

1967 • 304 citations

Decision making under uncertainty

1984 • 298 citations

How Medical Professionals Evaluate Expressions of Probability

1986 • 276 citations

Decisions based on numerically and verbally expressed uncertainties.

1988 • 227 citations

Base rate effects on the interpretations of probability and frequency expressions

1986 • 219 citations

Screening for HIV: Can We Afford the False Positive Rate?

1987 • 198 citations

Quantitative meanings of verbal probability expressions.

1989 • 167 citations

Numbers are better than words

1983 • 164 citations

Verbal Vs. Numerical Processing of Subjective Probabilities

1983 • 126 citations

Component processes in risky decision making.

1974 • 114 citations

Critical Decisions under Uncertainty: Representation and Structure

1988 • 108 citations

Veil: The Secret Wars of the CIA, 1981-1987

1987 • 104 citations

Critical decisions under uncertainty: Representation and structure

1988 • 104 citations

The language of uncertainty

1988 • 98 citations

The specific meanings of certain terms indicating differing degrees of frequency

1944 • 94 citations

The language of possibility and probability: Effects of negation on meaning

1981 • 65 citations

Direct and indirect scaling of membership functions of probability phrases

1987 • 63 citations

When are low-probability events judged to be ‘probable’? Effects of outcome-set characteristics on verbal probability estimates

1988 • 54 citations

Understanding and using linguistic uncertainties

1988 • 47 citations

Verbal and numerical estimates of probability in therapeutic contexts

1979 • 41 citations

Knowledge, decision making, and uncertainty

1986 • 35 citations

Feynman Issues His Own Shuttle Report, Attacking NASA's Risk Estimates

1986 • 19 citations

Combining stochastic uncertainty and linguistic inexactness: Theory and experimental evaluation

1988 • 18 citations

Academy Panel Faults NASA's Safety Analysis

1988 • 6 citations