Scientists’ views about lay perceptions of volcanic hazard and risk

Table 2 Percentages for different nominal categories representing comparisons between scientists’ perception of volcanic activity and their view about local people’s perceptions of activity

	Locals think it changes little/is easy	Locals think same as scientists	Locals think it changes a lot/is difficult	Wilcoxon T
Changes from week to week	52	32	16	420 p = 0.001
Changes from year to year	69	16	15	475 p < 0.001
Ease of forecasting week to week	47	24	29	NS
Ease of forecasting year to year	49	22	29	634 p = 0.034
Ease of understanding week to week	37	28	35	NS
Ease of understanding year to year	41	29	30	NS

For example, 52% of scientists felt that the local people viewed the volcano as changing less from week to week than they did themselves.

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