Please log in to access this page.
dinges2021knowledgeasymmetricloss
/data/papers/dinges2021knowledgeasymmetricloss/dinges2021knowledgeasymmetricloss.yamlschema_version: '1.2'
paper:
paper_id: dinges2021knowledgeasymmetricloss
citation: Dinges, A. (2023). Knowledge and Asymmetric Loss. Review of Philosophy and Psychology, 14, 1055–1076. https://doi.org/10.1007/s13164-021-00596-9
short_label: Dinges 2023
doi: 10.1007/s13164-021-00596-9
published: 'Yes'
year: 2023
language: English
language_other: null
research_objective: Propose a loss-function account of stakes effects on knowledge ascriptions and report a new Prolific
experiment testing whether stakes and probability threshold (70% vs 90%) affect how many rounds of proofreading are required
for certainty that no typos remain.
data_availability:
data_available_online: 'Yes'
url: https://osf.io/qknmh/
notes: 'Paper footnote provides view-only OSF link: https://osf.io/qknmh/?view_only=6001afa3de4e44baa438ed936d9b38d0'
notes: null
studies:
- study_id: 1
label: Study (Stakes × probability threshold; 2×2 between-subjects)
language: English
language_other: null
objective: Test whether stakes (low vs high) affect how many rounds of proofreading participants think are needed to be
70% or 90% certain that no typos remain.
sample:
n_final: 109
recruitment: Prolific
recruitment_other: null
compensation: money
compensation_other: null
characteristics: 73% female
mean_age: 35.0
mean_age_prov:
page: 15
quote: 120 participants were recruited through Prolific Academic (73 % female, mean age 35).
provenance:
page: 15
quote: 120 participants were recruited through Prolific Academic (73 % female, mean age 35)… 8 participants failed the
attention check, and they were thus excluded from the subsequent analysis. I further excluded three extreme outliers…
design: Between-Subjects
design_other: '2 (stakes: low vs high) × 2 (certainty threshold: 70% vs 90%) between-subjects.'
manipulated_factors:
- 'Certainty threshold: 70% vs 90%'
paradigm: Rating how much evidence is needed for knowledge
paradigm_other: 'Open numeric response: number of proofreading rounds required for a specified certainty threshold (70%
vs 90%) that no typos remain.'
scale:
label: other
points: null
anchors: 'Open numeric response (text box): number of times to proofread.'
direction: Higher numbers indicate more rounds of proofreading required to reach the specified certainty threshold.
provenance:
page: 15
quote: '"How many times does Peter have to proofread his paper before you would be [90/70] percent certain that no typos
remain? Please fill in a number."'
measures:
knowledge_question_text: null
knowledge_question_first: null
additional_question_text: How many times does Peter have to proofread his paper before you would be [90/70] percent certain
that no typos remain? Please fill in a number.
scenarios:
- scenario_code: typos
scenario_type: Proofreading a class paper for typos (Pinillos-style typo vignette).
high_stakes_text: "Typo high short: Peter, a good college student, has just finished writing a two\r\npage paper for an\
\ English class. The paper is due tomorrow. Even though Peter \r\nis a pretty good speller, he has a dictionary with\
\ him that he can use to check \r\nand make sure there are no typos. There is a lot at stake. The teacher is a stickler\
\ and guarantees that no one will get an A for the paper if there is a typo. Peter needs an A on the paper to get an\
\ A for the class, and he needs an A for the class to keep his scholarship. If he loses the scholarship he will have\
\ to \r\nleave school, which would be devastating for him. So it is extremely important for Peter that there are no\
\ typos in the paper."
low_stakes_text: 'Typo low: Peter, a good college student, has just finished writing a two-page paper for an English class.
The paper is due tomorrow. Even though Peter is a pretty good speller, he has a dictionary with him that he can use
to check and make sure there are no typos. But very little is at stake. The teacher is just asking for a rough draft
and it won’t matter if there are a few typos. Nonetheless Peter would like to have no typos at all.'
provenance:
page: 3
quote: 'Typo low: "…very little is at stake. The teacher is just asking for a rough draft and it won''t matter if there
are a few typos." Typo high short: "There is a lot at stake… guarantees that no one will get an A for the paper if
there is a typo… keep his scholarship…"'
effects:
- effect_id: s1_e1
subgroup: 'Typos (90% certainty): Low vs High stakes'
subgroup_desc: Proofreading rounds required for 90% certainty (between-subjects)
design: Between-Subjects
design_other: null
moderators:
scenario: typos
skeptical_pressure: 'No'
awareness: 'Yes'
evidence: First Person
attribution_person: Other
evidence_reliability: High
moderators_coding:
scenario:
provenance:
page: 3
quote: 'Typo low: "Peter… has just finished writing a two-page paper…" Typo high short: "…make sure there are no
typos."'
tei_id: null
table_ref: null
reason: The vignette is explicitly the typos/proofreading scenario.
skeptical_pressure:
provenance:
page: 3
quote: Typo vignettes describe proofreading for typos under different stakes; no explicit counterconsideration (e.g.,
'you might be wrong') is introduced.
tei_id: null
table_ref: null
reason: No explicit skeptical-pressure manipulation is present; only stakes vary.
awareness:
provenance:
page: 3
quote: 'Typo high short: "There is a lot at stake… guarantees that no one will get an A… scholarship…"'
tei_id: null
table_ref: null
reason: High-stakes consequences are described as known features of the situation.
evidence:
provenance:
page: 3
quote: 'Typo low: "…he has a dictionary with him that he can use to check and make sure there are no typos."'
tei_id: null
table_ref: null
reason: The evidence is based on the agent’s own proofreading/experience (first-person evidence).
attribution_person:
provenance:
page: 15
quote: '"How many times does Peter have to proofread his paper before you would be [90/70] percent certain that
no typos remain?"'
tei_id: null
table_ref: null
reason: The DV is a certainty-threshold judgment rather than a self- or third-person knowledge attribution, so this
moderator is not applicable and is coded null.
evidence_reliability:
provenance:
page: 3
quote: 'Typo low: "…he has a dictionary with him that he can use to check and make sure there are no typos."'
tei_id: null
table_ref: null
reason: checking/verification procedure with repeated proofreading and dictionary use to make sure no typos remain
-> High
contrast:
group_high: HS90
group_low: LS90
sign_convention: d = mean(low) - mean(high)
other_notes: 90% certainty condition. (In the OSF Qualtrics export, this corresponds to variables low70/high70; see
analysis/effect_sizes.qmd.)
groups:
- group_id: LS90
label: null
n: 26
mean: 2.34615384615385
sd: 0.745241313525099
se: null
provenance:
page: null
quote: Computed from OSF Qualtrics XML (data_study_1.xml) after excluding attention-check failures and the three outliers
described in the paper.
tei_id: null
table_ref: data_study_1.xml
- group_id: HS90
label: null
n: 28
mean: 4.96428571428571
sd: 3.42628340763253
se: null
provenance:
page: null
quote: Computed from OSF Qualtrics XML (data_study_1.xml) after excluding attention-check failures and the three outliers
described in the paper.
tei_id: null
table_ref: data_study_1.xml
effect_size:
metric: SMD
d: -1.037954558457
v: 0.084151284041
computed_from: groups
needs_review: false
notes: Computed from OSF Qualtrics XML group stats in analysis/effect_sizes.qmd via esc::esc_mean_sd (method=between_groups).
quality_flags: []
notes: null
- effect_id: s1_e2
subgroup: 'Typos (70% certainty): Low vs High stakes'
subgroup_desc: Proofreading rounds required for 70% certainty (between-subjects)
design: Between-Subjects
design_other: null
moderators:
scenario: typos
skeptical_pressure: 'No'
awareness: 'Yes'
evidence: First Person
attribution_person: Other
evidence_reliability: High
moderators_coding:
scenario:
provenance:
page: 3
quote: 'Typo low: "Peter… has just finished writing a two-page paper…" Typo high short: "…make sure there are no
typos."'
tei_id: null
table_ref: null
reason: The vignette is explicitly the typos/proofreading scenario.
skeptical_pressure:
provenance:
page: 3
quote: Typo vignettes describe proofreading for typos under different stakes; no explicit counterconsideration (e.g.,
'you might be wrong') is introduced.
tei_id: null
table_ref: null
reason: No explicit skeptical-pressure manipulation is present; only stakes vary.
awareness:
provenance:
page: 3
quote: 'Typo high short: "There is a lot at stake… guarantees that no one will get an A… scholarship…"'
tei_id: null
table_ref: null
reason: High-stakes consequences are described as known features of the situation.
evidence:
provenance:
page: 3
quote: 'Typo low: "…he has a dictionary with him that he can use to check and make sure there are no typos."'
tei_id: null
table_ref: null
reason: The evidence is based on the agent’s own proofreading/experience (first-person evidence).
attribution_person:
provenance:
page: 15
quote: '"How many times does Peter have to proofread his paper before you would be [90/70] percent certain that
no typos remain?"'
tei_id: null
table_ref: null
reason: The DV is a certainty-threshold judgment rather than a self- or third-person knowledge attribution, so this
moderator is not applicable and is coded null.
evidence_reliability:
provenance:
page: 3
quote: 'Typo low: "…he has a dictionary with him that he can use to check and make sure there are no typos."'
tei_id: null
table_ref: null
reason: checking/verification procedure with repeated proofreading and dictionary use to make sure no typos remain
-> High
contrast:
group_high: HS70
group_low: LS70
sign_convention: d = mean(low) - mean(high)
other_notes: 70% certainty condition. (In the OSF Qualtrics export, this corresponds to variables low90/high90; see
analysis/effect_sizes.qmd.)
groups:
- group_id: LS70
label: null
n: 28
mean: 2.03571428571429
sd: 1.23174500899974
se: null
provenance:
page: null
quote: Computed from OSF Qualtrics XML (data_study_1.xml) after excluding attention-check failures and the three outliers
described in the paper.
tei_id: null
table_ref: data_study_1.xml
- group_id: HS70
label: null
n: 27
mean: 3.25925925925926
sd: 2.12299847082435
se: null
provenance:
page: null
quote: Computed from OSF Qualtrics XML (data_study_1.xml) after excluding attention-check failures and the three outliers
described in the paper.
tei_id: null
table_ref: data_study_1.xml
effect_size:
metric: SMD
d: -0.70831102282
v: 0.077312272797
computed_from: groups
needs_review: false
notes: Computed from OSF Qualtrics XML group stats in analysis/effect_sizes.qmd via esc::esc_mean_sd (method=between_groups).
quality_flags: []
notes: null
notes: null