AINeutralarXiv – CS AI · Mar 116/10
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Rescaling Confidence: What Scale Design Reveals About LLM Metacognition
Research reveals that LLMs heavily concentrate their confidence scores on just three round numbers when using standard 0-100 scales, with over 78% of responses showing this pattern. The study demonstrates that using a 0-20 confidence scale significantly improves metacognitive efficiency compared to the conventional 0-100 format.