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A visual representation of participants' predictions made about their own future performance (mean predicted accuracy; Panel A) and their actual unaided performance in phase 1 (mean phase 1 accu-
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One of the most ancient and widely used forms of cognitive offloading is the outsourcing of cognitive operations onto other humans. Here, we explore whether humans preferentially seek out and use information from more competent compared with less competent others in an ongoing cognitive task. Participants ( N = 120) completed a novel computerised v...
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... for all follow-up tests involving multiple comparisons. All preregistered analyses were run and are reported below, with some adjustments. First, one-target trials were removed from all analyses after observing participants performing at ceiling on these trials, showing minimal variability in either their accuracy or offloading decisions (see Figs. 2, 3, and 4). Second, given the wide age range of our final sample, we decided to control for age in every model. Third, for each analysis, we ran a base model including all relevant main effects (rather than progressively adding them, as preregistered). We then compared each interaction model, which included all main effects and the ...
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... 2 (2) = 174.61, p < .001. Post hoc Wilcoxon signed-rank tests revealed that the predicted accuracy for 1-target trials (M = 0.95, SD = 0.14) was significantly higher than for 5-target trials (M = 0.70, SD = 0.22), z = −7.99, p < .001, which in turn was significantly higher than for 10-target trials (M = 0.53, SD = 0.22), z = −7.94, p < .001 (see Fig. 2, Panel ...
