Favorite admin email subject line of the year: “Hiring Pause Exception Process Update”
⭐️From Elizabeth Lapidow, Amberley Stein, Giovanni Thomas & Caren Walker:
Young Children Use Causal Knowledge to Guide Question Asking
www.youtube.com/watch?v=wscQ...
Abstract. Question asking is essential for learning in childhood. But options for possible questions are nearly infinite. We investigate whether causal kno
Can infants or other animals represent "mutually exclusive possibilities"? In a new paper in JEP:G, we argue for specifying: in thinking or seeing? We show that in object perception (shared with infants and many animals), the answer is yes. (w Peter Mazalik & Roman Feiman) osf.io/preprints/ps... /1
If you're curious, an interactive example of the digital Give-N task is here! khuyen-le.github.io/give-n-onlin... (no data is collected, though that might be my summer pet project)
If you study number and want a more standardized and convenient version for Give-N, consider using a digital task!
New preprint 🚨 (with Kenyee Liu, Daniel Hyde and @drbarner.bsky.social): a digital Give-N task shows high knower level agreement with a physical version. 1/
osf.io/preprints/ps...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=wscQ... An elderly man consigned his Lego collection worth $200k to his local Bricks & Minifigs store in order to help pay for his medical debt and help his family and then the Bricks & Minifigs corporation stole all of it and refused to acknowledge that they did that.
Ted Chiang on AI: www.theatlantic.com/philosophy/2...
David Barner
Society for Philosophy and Psychology
David Barner
We tested kids on both physical and digital versions of Give-N and found consistent knower level assignments across versions, regardless of item arrangement (below), and with multiple agreement analyses (e.g., individual knower levels, tripartite classifications of non-, subset-, and CP-knowers). 2/
