Yeah but I don’t think OP meant that by using “confidence level” you have to give a percentage. You can just swap out the phrase. Your two examples:
Confidence level: personal experience
Confidence level: did a few minutes informal searching to sanity check my claims, which were otherwise off the cuff.
I think these still work perfectly well, and now they are understandable to a much larger set of people.
The first does not work at all. “Personal experience” is not a level of confidence, and does not imply any particular level of confidence.
Yeah but I don’t think OP meant that by using “confidence level” you have to give a percentage. You can just swap out the phrase. Your two examples:
Confidence level: personal experience
Confidence level: did a few minutes informal searching to sanity check my claims, which were otherwise off the cuff.
I think these still work perfectly well, and now they are understandable to a much larger set of people.
The first does not work at all. “Personal experience” is not a level of confidence, and does not imply any particular level of confidence.