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Demands Are All You Need: Prompt Imperativeness Drastically Reduces Hedging In LLMs (n=900, Cohen's d = 2.67)

Foreword If you've ever noticed LLMs hedging considerably more when you ask them subjective questions, it's not a fluke. I ran a 3x2x3 factorial experiment (n=900) to quantify how much prompt phrasing (alongside question type and model type) shifts hedging across differing imperativeness levels. The effect sizes were larger than...

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