Proceedings of the 26th International Conference on World Wide Web 2017
DOI: 10.1145/3038912.3052681
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When Confidence and Competence Collide

Abstract: Group discussions are a way for individuals to exchange ideas and arguments in order to reach better decisions than they could on their own. One of the premises of productive discussions is that better solutions will prevail, and that the idea selection process is mediated by the (relative) competence of the individuals involved. However, since people may not know their actual competence on a new task, their behavior is influenced by their self-estimated competence -that is, their confidence -which can be misa… Show more

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“…Our proposed counterfactual framework can be further applied to other conversations such as online discussions (Danescu-Niculescu-Mizil et al, 2012), interviews (Fu et al, 2016) and congressional records (Gentzkow et al, 2018), to investigate the effect of attribute groups in various scenarios; and to other sociolinguistic phenomena, such as persuasion (Dimitrov et al, 2021) in order to explore additional perspectives on the social dynamics in conversations.…”
Section: Discussionmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…Our proposed counterfactual framework can be further applied to other conversations such as online discussions (Danescu-Niculescu-Mizil et al, 2012), interviews (Fu et al, 2016) and congressional records (Gentzkow et al, 2018), to investigate the effect of attribute groups in various scenarios; and to other sociolinguistic phenomena, such as persuasion (Dimitrov et al, 2021) in order to explore additional perspectives on the social dynamics in conversations.…”
Section: Discussionmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…Recall, using computational and natural language processing techniques, prior work has applied this words-as-attention model to bias in different settings, including medicine (Markowitz, 2022a), policing (Voigt et al, 2017), education (Markowitz et al, 2023), and sport (Fu et al, 2016). In sport, specifically, journalists who interviewed players tended to focus on different aspects of the match depending on player gender.…”
Section: Psychology Of Language Research: Evaluating Attention Throug...mentioning
confidence: 99%
“…Recall, using computational and natural language processing techniques, prior work has applied this words-as-attention model to bias in different settings, including medicine (Markowitz, 2022a), policing (Voigt et al, 2017), education (Markowitz et al, 2023), and sport (Fu et al, 2016). In sport, specifically, journalists who interviewed players tended to focus on different aspects of the match depending on player gender.…”
Section: Psychology Of Language Research: Evaluating Attention Throug...mentioning
confidence: 99%