This is our first (scientific) collaboration with @cmziemba.bsky.social (a plan hatched during our long COVID lockdown in Bogota) and it's been very fun! Big thanks to @zoebsinger.bsky.social & big shoutout to our exceptional postbac Corey Plate for finishing this right before leaving to his MD/PhD!

The paper also includes the release of a toolbox for implementing a Bayesian hierarchical version of CASANDRE (in Stan) that is applicable to both value-based choice data and perceptual choice data: github.com/CDN-Lab/CASt...

We find that metacognitive ability is highly conserved for distinct preference-based decisions and we find some evidence for conservation across objective and subjective decisions.

This is difficult to do because these types of decisions do not have an objectively correct answer. However, by combining utility modeling and the CASANDRE model of confidence we can characterize metacognitive ability for these types of decisions in the same way we probe it for perceptual choices.

Hooray Clara! I am so proud of you! It’s been truly awesome to work with you these past 2 years. I can’t wait to see all the beautiful work you will do next.