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But if there's a standardized chart that maps the phrase to a number, certainly you'd expect whoever is writing the phrase to know what number it maps to. For t
by kmoser 1y ago
But if there's a standardized chart that maps the phrase to a number, certainly you'd expect whoever is writing the phrase to know what number it maps to. For the sake of simplicity, then, why not just use the number to avoid all doubt?
- andrewflnr 1y agoThe biggest reason is probably just that your boss told you to. But also downthread we were talking about the illusion of quantitative thought that comes from using specific numbers, which would be a slightly better reason to use words instead.
- qmr 1y agoI don't think there is a standardized chart. Rather the chart shows people's subjective mental mapping of the description to a probability.
- andrewflnr 1y agoThe chart at the bottom of the article is explicitly a standard adopted by UK intelligence. (ed: well, proposed for adoption, it's not clear from the article how far it actually got.)
- dragonwriter 1y ago> But if there's a standardized chart that maps the phrase to a number, The chart doesn't map each phrase to a number, in fact given that the colored areas extend beyond the marked lines and fade, it doesn't even map each to an unambiguous, bounded range of numbers.