Uncertainty
* Many uncertainties exist in the science and application of genetic engineering.
* Refers to doubt concerning one's ability to predict outcomes.
* affects decisions.
* also exists in relation to wage development.
* arises due to measurement errors, systematic errors, and random sampling errors
  - the inaccuracies of sensors used in measuring distances and angles
* associates with measurements.
* big source of psychological stress.
* can also lead to enormous societal costs
  - be an aphrodisiac
* causes problems.
* central feature of any analysis of the potential risks of global climate change.
* characterizes the whole world.
* comes in degrees, sometimes small, sometimes very large.
* continues to characterize the financial markets.
* contributes to the excitement and suspense of living.
* differs from risk.
* discourages productive activity, saving and investing.
* embodies the idea of unknown probabilities, i.e. randomness of the external environment.
* exists because models are mimics of reality.
* explains many aspects of visual contrast detection and discrimination.
* fact of life common to all areas of science.
* function of the extent and quality of knowledge about a problem.
* gives rise to both opportunity and risk.
* is adaptive when problems change across trials.
* is an everyday experience
  - important part of the environment of doing business
  - inevitable characteristic of warfare
  - associated with each link of the causal chain of climate change
* is caused by the difficulty of reliably and timeously detecting failures
  - lack of evidence to support either belief or disbelief
* is central to environmental problem-solving
  - trading
  - common for most self-employed people, and especially for agricultural producers
  - emotion
  - expressed by means of qualitative certainty levels
  - fundamentally part of the inherent honesty of the scientific process
* is inherent in combat
  - the analysis of global warming issues
  - modeled with a probability distribution on the state space
  - part of the process of creation
  - recognized as having an important role in policy making
  - related to the prediction of incidental scenarios in the nuclear power plant
  - relative to the possibility of a finer-grained cognitive domain
  - replaced by abundance, and death is overcome by resurrection and immortality
  - represented by probability distributions
* is the central issue of risk
  - distribution of the er- rors of stage estimates about a specific discharge
  - period between trends
  - price employees pay for flying at a fraction of the standard ticket rate
  - real challenge to artificial intelligence
  - water which wears away the stone of resolve
* key difficulty in decision-making.
* limits effects.
* means that a variable, say, the oil price for the coming years, is simply unpredictable
  - people are forced continually to glance back
* measure of the inability to predict.
* occurs while driving for many reasons.
* part of life.
* plays a very important role in the representation, access, and retrieval of information.
* refers to varying degrees of belief about various features of a process.
* stems from decisions
  - patterns
* tends to make people uncomfortable.
* third major cause of difficulty in decision-making.

### uncertainty:

Economic uncertainty
* breeds volatility in the market.
* little like winter in that most things go into a holding pattern.
* means that jobs of all descriptions are in danger.