Climate change assessments Review of the processes and ...
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Recommendation<br />
►The likelihood scale should be stated in terms <strong>of</strong> probabilities (numbers) in addition to words<br />
to improve underst<strong>and</strong>ing <strong>of</strong> uncertainty.<br />
Studies suggest that informal elicitation measures, especially those<br />
designed to reach consensus, lead to different <strong>assessments</strong> <strong>of</strong> probabilities<br />
than formal measures. (Protocols for conducting structured expert elicitations<br />
are described in Cooke <strong>and</strong> Goossens [2000].) Informal procedures<br />
<strong>of</strong>ten result in probability distributions that place less weight in <strong>the</strong> tails <strong>of</strong><br />
<strong>the</strong> distribution than formal elicitation methods, possibly understating <strong>the</strong><br />
uncertainty associated with a given outcome (Morgan et al., 2006; Zickfeld<br />
et al., 2007).<br />
Recommendation<br />
► Where practical, formal expert elicitation procedures should be used to obtain subjective<br />
probabilities for key results.<br />
<strong>Climate</strong> <strong>change</strong> <strong>assessments</strong> | <strong>Review</strong> <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> <strong>processes</strong> <strong>and</strong> procedures <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> IPCC 41