Addisu Alehegn Alemu, Liknaw Bewket Zeleke, Desalegn Abebaw Jember, Getachew Mullu Kassa, Marjan Khajehei
Individual and community level determinants of delayed antenatal care initiation in Ethiopia: A multilevel analysis of the 2019 Ethiopian Mini Demographic Health Survey
PloS one
dealing uncertainty different degrees frequency probability critical many everyday activities however relevant information always come form numerical estimates direct experiences instead obtained qualitative rather vague verbal terms eg virus often causes coughing train likely delayed investigating people interpret utilize different natural language expressions frequency probability therefore crucial understand reasoning behavior realworld situations considerable work exploring adults understand everyday uncertainty phrases little known children interpret understanding develops age take developmental computational perspective address issue examine 4 14yearold children adults interpret different terms participant provided numerical estimates 14 expressions comprising frequency probability phrases total obtained 2856 quantitative judgments including 2240 judgments children findings demonstrate adultlike intuitions interpretation everyday uncertainty terms emerge fairly early development quantitative estimates children converging adults around 9 years also demonstrate vagueness verbal terms represented probability distributions provides additional leverage tracking developmental shifts cognitive modeling techniques taken together findings provide key insights developmental trajectories underlying understanding everyday uncertainty terms open novel methodological pathways formally model vagueness probability frequency phrases abundant everyday life activities