Using an evolutionary model, this study explores the conditions under which metacognition (awareness of one’s own knowledge) would be expected to evolve in the opt-out paradigm, a common experimental method used to study metacognition. In such experiments, individuals must choose between opting-in and attempting a task with a large reward or opting-out and receiving a smaller guaranteed payoff. Two evolving traits – bias and metacognition – jointly determine whether individuals opt-in. Overall, the results support predictions implicating uncertainty in the evolution of metacognition but suggest metacognition may also evolve in conditions where metacognition can be used to identify cases where an otherwise inaccessible high payoff is easy to acquire.

This project aims to map and catalog current and potential data output of governmental data producers and then transform a key selection into more usable and visualized formats.

Through Comunidad Araucaria, character-based leadership training will be provided to ministers and their technical teams from five ministries of education in Latin America.