Which answer did the seventeen-year-old write? A behavioral case study of author-age misattribution, miscalibrated confidence, and non-corrective self-explanation in six frontier language models
Read the original at arxiv.org→arXiv:2610.31946v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Three students answered the same exam prompt by hand: "What is happiness? Are you happy?" Their ages, recorded at collection, are 17, 28, and 45. The 17-year-old's...
Original headline: "Which Answer Did the Seventeen-Year-Old Write? A Behavioral Case Study of Author-Age Misattribution, Miscalibrated Confidence, and Non-Corrective Self-Explanation in Six Frontier Language Models"