One of my personal stats heroes E J Wagenmakers has just liked one of my goofy comments. I can't begin to explain my excitement. Now I'm just missing @bbolker.bsky.social, and I can retire in peace.

Also (as shown in the picture above), factors like social anxiety modulated tendency to give advice actually rendering advice-givers more responsible and mindful of information shared. Note that while imposing cost on advice changed advice frequency, for the most part did not compromise its quality

Long story short, we found that a third of people will share advice compulsively (even without any added incentive). But the rest of them would actually think before sharing, and propagate advice that was backed by their experiential knowledge. Thus, heeding advice gives access to curated knowledge.

We prepared a classic 2-armed bandit task, presented under the guise of a fishing trip. Participants were explorers scouting the fish yield of different lakes. On every turn, they could choose to share their choice of lake as advice to others (before feedback, so based on accumulated knowledge).

Did someone say #womeninscience ? Look no further than our Hrl Team, where the reinforcement learning models of tomorrow are being dreamt today