Does consulting with others affect answerability judgments of difficult questions?

• People's judgments of the answerability of questions relating to how things are in the world can have important consequences for society and people's lives. Thirty-one individuals and 30 pairs made answerability judgments of 20 general knowledge questions, many with less known, or unknown, answers. Four questions had high expected consensus regarding their answerability (consensus questions) and the rest had less expected consensus with respect to their answerability (non-consensus questions). The pairs showed two polarization effects: pairs gave higher answerability ratings for questions with answerability ratings over 80% and lower ratings than individuals for questions with the lower answerability ratings. Stronger consensus-seeking tendencies and a more active memory environment in the pairs may have contributed to these results.

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SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP  -- Psykologi (hsv//swe)

SOCIAL SCIENCES  -- Psychology (hsv//eng)

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Question answerability

judgments

pairs

individuals

polarization effect

CONFIDENCE JUDGMENTS

DECISION-MAKING

DONT KNOW

UNANSWERABLE

QUESTIONS

IGNORANCE

CHILDRENS

KNOWLEDGE

REALISM

ORGANIZATIONS

METAANALYSIS

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