{"pk":29693,"title":"Scaling Uncertainty in Visual Perception and Estimation Tasks","subtitle":null,"abstract":"Demographic perceptionthe perception of social quantities of geopolitical scale and social significancehas been extensivelystudied in cognitive and political science (Citrin & Sides, 2008; Gilens, 2001; Herda, 2013). Regular patterns of over-and under-estimation emerge which have historically been attributed to social factors such as fear of specific minorities(Gallagher, 2003; Wong, 2007). Other work has suggested that these patterns result from the psychophysics of the percep-tion of proportions (Landy, Guay & Marghetis, 2018). A Bayesian formulation suggests that biases in the estimation ofboth social proportions and simple visual properties result from a common source: hedging uncertain information towarda prior. Similar to work done by Zhang and Maloney (2012), we present a novel lab paradigm and two experiments thatfocus specifically on manipulating uncertainty in a simple (dot estimation) task, verifying the core assumptions of theBayesian approach.","language":"eng","license":{"name":"","short_name":"","text":null,"url":""},"keywords":[],"section":"Poster Session 1","is_remote":true,"remote_url":"https://escholarship.org/uc/item/3xn7c5nv","frozenauthors":[{"first_name":"Eleanor","middle_name":"","last_name":"Schille-Hudson","name_suffix":"","institution":"Indiana University","department":""},{"first_name":"David","middle_name":"","last_name":"Landy","name_suffix":"","institution":"Indiana University","department":""}],"date_submitted":null,"date_accepted":null,"date_published":"2020-01-01T18:00:00Z","render_galley":null,"galleys":[{"label":"PDF","type":"pdf","path":"https://journalpub.escholarship.org/cognitivesciencesociety/article/29693/galley/19550/download/"}]}