The overlap in confidence ranges between submitted answers and strategy use is larger for help seeking than for withholding answers¶

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q3 i3 In Experiment 1, the overlap in confidence range was larger in the help-seeking than in the don't-know condition, t(50) = 3.40, p = 0.001, d = 0.94. → Monika Undorf 2021

Evidence¶

Monika Undorf 2021¶

Monika Undorf, Iris Livneh, Rakefet Ackerman. (2021). Metacognitive control processes in question answering: help seeking and withholding answers. Metacognition and Learning. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11409-021-09259-7

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Experiment 1 (54 undergraduates, between-participants design) compared confidence ranges associated with submitting versus using the available strategy, shown in Fig. 1. The overlap was "larger in the help-seeking than in the don't-know condition, t(50) = 3.40, p = 0.001, d = 0.94".

"The resulting overlap in confidence range was larger in the help-seeking than in the don't-know condition, t(50) = 3.40, p = 0.001, d = 0.94. This difference was due to higher maximum confidence associated with strategy use in the help-seeking than in the don't-know condition, t(50) = 2.55, p = 0.014, d = 0.71."

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• Participants seek help less often than they withhold answers when both strategies are available or compared across conditions — related
• The association between confidence and help seeking is weaker than the association between confidence and withholding answers — related
• Help seeking is guided by a wider variety of considerations beyond improving immediate answer accuracy than withholding answers is — a broader claim this one bears on
• The option to withhold answers improves output-bound accuracy, whereas the option to seek help does not consistently do so — related