Both knowability of a topic and independence of testimonials matter, but people differ in how much
Relying on information from other people (social testimony) is essential for efficiently learning and reasoning about the world. However, determining who to trust is often challenging. In this paper, we argue that trust in social agents (i.e., those …
When reasoning about a claim, it makes sense to be more persuaded if lots of other people agree. But, there are many factors that make weighing the evidence behind a consensus complicated. For example, a consensus might be more or less informative …
GPT4 is similar to humans on category-based induction tasks unless they involve sampling assumptions