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    "pk": 27721,
    "title": "Success does not imply knowledge: Preschoolers believe that accurate predictions reveal prior knowledge, but accurate observations do not.",
    "subtitle": null,
    "abstract": "Much research has investigated how children track and reason\nabout accuracy when deciding who to trust. The majority of\nthis work assumes a static link between accuracy and\nknowledge; that is, children are expected to attribute greater\nknowledge to accurate agents. But while accuracy often\nreveals knowledge, the two are not deterministically related.\nIgnorant agents can be accurate (for example, one could take\na lucky guess), and knowledgeable agents can be inaccurate\n(for example, one could accidentally err). Given this, how do\nchildren reason about the relation between knowledge and\naccuracy? Across three experiments, we show that four- and\nfive-year-olds are sensitive to the distinction between\nknowledge and accuracy. Specifically, children judge that an\nagent who accurately predicts an outcome is knowledgeable,\nbut an agent who merely observes and then accurately\ndescribes the same outcome is not. Our findings show that\nwhen children gauge agents’ knowledge, they do not rely on\naccuracy alone; they infer knowledge only when an agent is\nright in the right kind of way",
    "language": "eng",
    "license": {
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        "short_name": "",
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    },
    "keywords": [
        {
            "word": "testimony"
        },
        {
            "word": "social learning"
        },
        {
            "word": "Knowledge"
        }
    ],
    "section": "Publication-based-Talks",
    "is_remote": true,
    "remote_url": "https://escholarship.org/uc/item/5hd2g3sq",
    "frozenauthors": [
        {
            "first_name": "Rosie",
            "middle_name": "",
            "last_name": "Aboody",
            "name_suffix": "",
            "institution": "Yale University",
            "department": ""
        },
        {
            "first_name": "Holly",
            "middle_name": "",
            "last_name": "Huey",
            "name_suffix": "",
            "institution": "New York University",
            "department": ""
        },
        {
            "first_name": "Julian",
            "middle_name": "",
            "last_name": "Jara-Ettinger",
            "name_suffix": "",
            "institution": "Yale University",
            "department": ""
        }
    ],
    "date_submitted": null,
    "date_accepted": null,
    "date_published": "2018-01-01T18:00:00Z",
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