PhD student with Wim de Neys, Zoe Purcell & Lucie Charles at LaPsyDE; MSc in Cog Sciences at ENS. Working on reasoning, intuition/deliberation & metacognition.
Oct 16 • 16 tweets • 4 min read
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🚨 New preprint: Using Large Language Models to Estimate Belief Strength in Reasoning 🚨
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When asked: "There are 995 politicians and 5 nurses. Person 'L' is kind. Is Person 'L' more likely to be a politician or a nurse?", most people will answer "nurse", neglecting the base-rate info.
Aug 6 • 8 tweets • 3 min read
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New (and first) paper accepted at JEP:LMC 🎉 Ever fallen for this type of questions: "How many animals of each kind did Moses take on the Ark?" Most say "Two," forgetting it was Noah, and not Moses, who took the animals on the Ark. But what’s really going on here?🧵 2/8
These semantic illusions are often used to test for deliberate "System 2" thinking (e.g., in the verbal CRT). The classic theory? We intuitively fall for the illusion & need slow, effortful deliberation to correct the mistake. But is it really that simple?
