The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change has issued guidelines for communicating probabilities with words, but readers all over the world think the words mean something different.
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Teigen, K. When very likely is not so likely. Nature Clim Change 4, 421–422 (2014). https://doi.org/10.1038/nclimate2256
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