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Record W6906502659 · doi:10.17605/osf.io/47m8k

Revisiting the Moral Forecasting Error

2023· other· en· W6906502659 on OpenAlex

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Bibliographic record

VenueOSF Preprints (OSF Preprints) · 2023
Typeother
Languageen
Field
Topic
Canadian institutionsnot available
Fundersnot available
KeywordsCheatingDebiasingTask (project management)Sample (material)PopulationDimension (graph theory)Extension (predicate logic)Replication (statistics)Power (physics)

Abstract

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Predictions about the future are often inaccurate, but the direction of prediction errors may vary. Contrary to research on the intention-behavior gap, where people fail to live up to their future ambitions, a study on “moral forecasting” found that people behaved more honestly than they predicted. Since this interesting prediction error has only been identified in a few studies and its direction may seem surprising, psychological science could benefit from a high-powered replication. In Experiment 1, we will conduct a close replication using the original cheating task and a general population sample from the same country as the original study (Canada). By extension, we will also include the “mind-game paradigm” as an established deception-free cheating task to assess task generalizability. If the primary hypothesis is supported, then we propose a second extension in Experiment 2, by examining whether a cognitive debiasing intervention can reduce the moral forecasting error in a general population sample from the US. As a final extension we will also examine the social dimension of lay beliefs, by assessing whether moral forecasts for other people exhibit the same prediction error as moral forecasts for oneself. In the current experiments, the planned sample size will provide 90% power to detect ¼ of the observed effect size from the original study.

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Teacher imitation

Not calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.014
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.015
Version: codex-gemma-dda1882f352aValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesMetaresearch, Meta-epidemiology (narrow), Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)
Consensus categoriesInsufficient payload (model declined to judge)
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Not applicable · Consensus signal: Not applicable
GenreCandidate signal: Other · Consensus signal: Other
Teacher disagreement score0.206
Threshold uncertainty score0.999

Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0140.015
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0010.001
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0010.001
Bibliometrics0.0010.001
Science and technology studies0.0010.001
Scholarly communication0.0000.000
Open science0.0040.005
Research integrity0.0010.002
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.7850.991

Machine scores (provisional)

The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.

Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.

Opus teacher head0.054
GPT teacher head0.292
Teacher spread0.238 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it

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Published2023
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