Tornadoes, Social Science, and the False Alarm Effect.

Trainor, J. E., Nagele, D., Philips, B., & Scott, B. (2015). Tornadoes, Social Science, and the False Alarm Effect. Weather, Climate, and Society, 7(4), 333-352.

Type

Journal article

Intellectual base

Primary research

Year

2015

DOI

10.1175/wcas-d-14-00052.1

Link

https://doi.org/10.1175/WCAS-D-14-00052.1

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communication_media_studies

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Primes

• Signal Inflation
  • In severe-weather warning it is the cry-wolf effect: communities that have experienced repeated false warnings show measurably reduced sheltering on subsequent ones.

    This sourceLarge-scale survey study showing the false-alarm ratio of prior tornado warnings is significantly associated with reduced subsequent sheltering/response (the cry-wolf effect).

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