Standards of Evidence Working Group
Working Group Leader: Bert Baumgaertner
Group Members: Florian Justwan, Kendal Mitton, Chenangnon Tovissode
Originated: January 2023
Description:
This working group uses both modeling and empirical investigations to understand the role that evidentiary standards play when individuals evaluate claims. We are interested in the systematic ways standards of evidence differ across various types of claims (e.g. political vs scientific) and the determinants of these systematic differences, including base rates (priors) vs likelihoods, in-group vs outgroup, confirmation vs disconfirmation, prospective vs retrospective, and general public vs political elites.
