Uncertainty
Uncertainty refers to epistemic situations involving imperfect or unknown information. It applies to predictions of future events, to physical measurements that are already made, or to the unknown. Uncertainty arises in partially observable and/or stochastic environments, as well as due to ignorance, indolence, or both. It arises in any number of fields, including insurance, philosophy, physics, statistics, economics, finance, psychology, sociology, engineering, metrology, meteorology, ecology and information science.
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Fraser Institute · 24 October 2024 English
New survey shows Canadian parents with kids in K-12 schools, and parents in British Columbia, find letter grades on report cards significantly clearer and easier to understand than the BC …
identify the meaning of the term. (Leger, 2024) Uncertainty around descriptive grading terms was especially … difficult to understand. There was virtually no uncertainty, with zero percent of parents responding “don’t …
UAP: University of Alberta Press · 22 October 2024 English
Stories Left in Stone explores the lives, histories, and artistic legacies of Cáceres and Extremadura. Author Troy Nahumko has lived in the old town of Cáceres, a UNESCO World Heritage …
birth rate that is only set to worsen with the uncertainty that the COVID pandemic has ushered in. I asked …
IISD: International Institute for Sustainable Development · 21 October 2024 English
While IISD's reputation as a convenor, a trusted thought leader, and a go-to source on key issues within the sustainable development field is stronger than ever, the work happening outside …
audit evidence obtained, whether a material uncertainty exists related to events or conditions that may … going concern. If we conclude that a material uncertainty exists, we are required to draw attention in …
MQUP: McGill-Queen's University Press · 15 October 2024 English
Approaching the novels of early Quebec through the counterintuitive lens of the sacred, Lisa Gasbarrone challenges negative views of these novels as dated and even unreadable for the contemporary reader. …
of human concerns: the passage of time, the uncertainty of the future, the loss of traditional ways …
MQUP: McGill-Queen's University Press · 15 October 2024 English
Through detailed analyses of nineteenth-century spirit photography, horror films, ghost-hunting reality television, and the viral internet phenomenon “Slender Man,” Poetics of the Paranormal shows how the figure of the ghost …
scientific discovery generated a sense of deep uncertainty, an entrance into a new, unfamiliar world that …
MQUP: McGill-Queen's University Press · 15 October 2024 English
A thorough account of the cultural achievements of the anthropologist and media scholar Edmund Snow Carpenter.
communication of information begins with uncertainty – the maximum uncertainty, the maximum potentiality of communication …
DDN: Dundurn Press · 8 October 2024 English
101 lesser-known stories to delight Canadian cinema and television fans. Do you know who was in the first on-screen nude scene in a Canadian feature film? Or which David Cronenberg …
and critic Justine Smith wrote, “It is the uncertainty that is unveiled in the final moments before …
IISD: International Institute for Sustainable Development · 30 September 2024 English
Solar photovoltaic (PV) and onshore wind are now the cheapest options for new power generation, but enabling policies are still needed to speed up deployment, particularly in lower income countries. …
premium. These include policy and regulatory uncertainty, currency risks that necessitate additional hedging …
Fraser Institute · 27 September 2024 English
Recently, many developed economies, including Canada and the US, have implemented major government programs to promote the growth of specific industries and sectors including electronic vehicles (EVs) and the critical …
as much greater economic and technological uncertainty. • Given the problems that many PPPs have experienced … particularly in the presence of complexity, uncertainty, and the requirement for one or another party … the much greater technological and eco- nomic uncertainty surrounding so-called “moonshot” public policy …
ALRI: Alberta Law Reform Institute · 27 September 2024 English
ALRI has briefed officials from Alberta Justice on our Thank you to the Alberta Law Foundation, recommendations and stands ready to assist if Alberta Justice, the University of Alberta and …
and artificial with electronic wills creating uncertainty intelligence, Indigenous law, intimate partner …