Anne Marthe van der Bles and others from the Winton Centre team carried out empirical work, including experiments on the BBC News website, to see how people responded to the communication of uncertainty around facts and figures. Even though people recognised that the evidence was more uncertain, it did not undermine their trust in the facts or in the communicator (particularly when the uncertainty was in the form of an actual numerical range, rather than a verbal caveat).

Open Access paper here: https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1913678117