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The Doubt Dial: Visualising Answers with Evidence Description: We need to improve how people can quickly and easily understand answers to questions, and how well they can trust the evidence.
This idea to improve how people can understand information from evidence synthesis was developed in 2017 by Dr Jack Nunn- and is has been shared by Science for All in the spirit of open learning and sharing.
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0202603050002
Dates
State ongoing
Start 2026-03-05
Form updated 2026-03-05
Aims
We need something visual which summarises the answers to complex evidence synthesis
It needs to work for people with little or no reading skills
Keywords
evidence synthesis
visualizing evidence
knowledge translation
living systematic reviews
Category
research
Inputs
individual
Jack Nunn
Task: initiated idea, shared idea, used AI prompts to generate a visual mock up
Compensation: volunteer
organisation
Open AI
Task: Generated mock up image using text prompts
Compensation: volunteer
The text prompts used for the Open AI 'Chat GPT' (GPT-5 mini) - free model on 2026.03.05 were: I want to create a visual mock up of an idea - can you create an image: We need something visual which summarises the answers to complex evidence synthesis. It needs to work for people with little or no reading skills. The dial should look like an analogue pressure gauge - and should show if the answer is ‘Yes’, ‘Unsure’ or ‘No’ - and it should indicate how certain or not we are of the ‘yes’ or ‘no’ by how far to the left or right of the dial the needle is pointing ‘Yes’ (left side) should be green, and ‘no’ (right side) should be ‘red’ - ‘Unsure’ should be a grey area in the middle of the dial There should also be a ‘phone battery style’ meter underneath the dial indicating the certainty of the answer the question. It could indicate simply ‘data available’ or, it could be aligned with the GRADE approach (Grading of Recommendations Assessment, Development and Evaluation) If the certainty or available data is ‘low’, it should indicate this as a low percentage in the ‘red’ of the battery meter, ‘middle’ orange, and ‘high’ green The needle should move as more data is available, and be coded in a way that it can visualise ‘living’ systematic reviews
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