Children as young as 4 years can reason about their relative confidence by selecting which of two questions they feel most sure of answering¶

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Evidence · 1 study · causal r2 · q3
Currency · newest study 2021 · not yet checked against its sources · not reviewed by a person

Subclaims¶

q3 i? Children at all age groups selected the easier of two paired trials more than 50% of the time across area, number, and emotion dimensions. → Carolyn Baer 2021

Evidence¶

Carolyn Baer 2021¶

Carolyn Baer, Puja Malik, & Darko Odic. (2021). Are children's judgments of another's accuracy linked to their metacognitive confidence judgments? Metacognition and Learning (2021) 16:485–516. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11409-021-09263-x

q3 · i? · causal · r2

In Experiment 1's Relative Confidence Task (45 trials across area, number, and emotion dimensions), children chose which of two screenshots they wanted to answer, then answered only that question. All age groups selected the easier trial above chance; children choosing the harder option were identified and inverted via a psychophysical model.

"we found that children at all age groups selected the easier trial more than 50% of the time in all three dimensions (see Table 1 for means and tests against chance)."

Discussion¶

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