Landes, Jürgen  ORCID: 0000-0003-3105-6624; Osimani, Barbara
(2020):
On the Assessed Strength of Agents' Bias.
In: Journal for General Philosophy of Science
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Abstract
Recent work in social epistemology has shown that, in certain situations, less communication leads to better outcomes for epistemic groups. In this paper, we show that, ceteris paribus, a Bayesian agent may believe less strongly that a single agent is biased than that an entire group of independent agents is biased. We explain this initially surprising result and show that it is in fact a consequence one may conceive on the basis of commonsense reasoning.
