META-UNCERTAINTY
Charles François (2004). META-UNCERTAINTY, International Encyclopedia of Systems and Cybernetics, 2(1): 2117.
| Collection | International Encyclopedia of Systems and Cybernetics |
|---|---|
| Year | 2004 |
| Vol. (num.) | 2(1) |
| ID | ◀ 2117 ▶ |
| Object type | Epistemology, ontology or semantics |
- “The uncertainty about the accuracy of estimating the uncertainty of a class of events” (K. KRIPPENDORFF, 1986, p.49).
KRIPPENDORFF writes: “In information theory, meta-uncertainty is calculated on the probability distribution of possible samples drawn at random from a hypothetical universe having the same uncertainty or entropy as the sample actually observed… By the law of large numbers, meta-uncertainty decreases with increasing number of observations” (Ibid).