The non-expert-trained classifier also distinguishes expert definitions of curiosity and interest above chance¶
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q3 i? The Study 1 classifier correctly classified 67/92 (72.83%) of expert definitions, with interest definitions classified more accurately (80.85%) than curiosity definitions (64.44%). → Donnellan 2021
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Donnellan 2021¶
Donnellan, E., Aslan, S., Fastrich, G. M., & Murayama, K. (2021). How Are Curiosity and Interest Different? Naïve Bayes Classification of People's Beliefs. Educational Psychology Review. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10648-021-09622-9
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Study 2 tested the classifier trained on non-expert definitions against definitions from 47 experts (psychologists and neuroscientists studying curiosity/interest); Table 1 reports 67/92 correct (72.83%) overall, with per-type rates of 64.44% (curiosity) and 80.85% (interest).
"Study 2 Expert data (n = 47*) 67/92 (72.83%) 29/45 (64.44%) 38/47 (80.85%)"
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Related Claims¶
- A Naïve Bayes classifier distinguishes free-text definitions of curiosity and interest at above-chance accuracy on unseen data — related
- Participants' ratings of how similar curiosity and interest are did not predict classifier accuracy — related
- Frequently used word stems such as \"can\", \"want\", \"thing\" and \"feel\" carry no discriminative value between curiosity and interest definitions — related
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The non-expert-trained classifier also distinguishes expert definitions of curiosity and interest above chance |
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The non-expert-trained classifier also distinguishes expert definitions of curiosity and interest above chance |
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