Simulators

Small experiments. No winners. The purpose is to notice how interpretation changes.

Case 001 — Missing information

You send someone an important message. They do not reply. What is your first explanation?

Choose an interpretation.

Move the slider. Notice how language can communicate different levels of certainty.

I wonder

The point is not that a particular percentage maps perfectly to a phrase. The exercise is to remember that certainty has degrees.

Before judging an event, try asking these five questions:

What did I observe?What did I infer?What did the other person see?What evidence could check this?What remains unknown?