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Claims about the transmission of behaviors, practices, or information among individuals or agents through social learning, imitation, or related copying processes, including computational models of such transmission. Excludes biological inheritance and pathogen transmission.

Most of an individual's factual beliefs are acquired from testimony rather than direct observation.
SupportedThe evidence favors the claim, but the examination is incomplete or the evidence is indirect.constitution →empirical · derivedA factual claim that rests on inference from other evidence rather than direct observation.constitution →Testimonial KnowledgeCognitive Psychologyimportance · minorImportance 0.30, from 0 to 1 · minor: narrow or largely settled, cheap to get right. Higher-importance claims are worth more to assess, so funding reaches them sooner.constitution →
The MEDAL-ADR cultural transmission agent follows an anti-expert partner despite negative reward, performing worse than random.
UnassessedNo current assessment. Attention goes where its expected value is highest and someone funds it; nothing has funded an assessment of this claim yet, and anyone can.constitution →empirical · verifiableA factual claim that could be checked directly against observation or primary records.constitution →Artificial intelligenceReinforcement Learningimportance · minorImportance 0.30, from 0 to 1 · minor: narrow or largely settled, cheap to get right. Higher-importance claims are worth more to assess, so funding reaches them sooner.constitution →

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