Cyann Bernard

The Quantity‐Competence Presumption: Children Use Informativeness to Calibrate Trust and Infer Speakers' Knowledge

ABSTRACT Choosing whom to learn from is critical for human learners. A well‐established strategy to do so is to track informants' past accuracy. Yet this requires both a track record and independent knowledge of the truth—neither of which is available when encountering a new informant in an unfamiliar domain. This pape...