Use free discussion of confidence and experiences to improve group decisions and individual perception¶

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Description¶

The article recommends that groups making perceptual or collective decisions permit free verbal discussion in which partners report and negotiate their confidence, since this achieves optimal weighted confidence sharing and builds shared vocabularies. It also implies educators and practitioners can improve individual perception by having learners discuss experiences with peers.

Design Implications¶

Context¶

Requirements¶

• Partners of similar competence for the group advantage to hold
• Free verbal communication rather than constrained non-verbal channels
• Time for pairs to develop shared confidence vocabularies

Constraints¶

• With very unequal partner abilities, free discussion can produce worse-than-best-individual performance; non-verbal confidence communication removes this disadvantage but yields a smaller advantage when abilities are similar

Target Learners¶

• adults
• students working in pairs or groups

Target Learning Goals¶

• improving perceptual discrimination and collaborative decision-making accuracy

Affordances¶

• Explicit Metacognition Uniquely Human Collaboration

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Examples¶

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Key Sources¶

• Frith Chris D. (2012). The role of metacognition in human social interactions. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences. https://doi.org/10.1098/rstb.2012.0123