Empirical Metrics
Empirical metrics capture the value of trust by exploring the behaviour or introspection of people, to determine the perceived or expressed level of trust. Those methods combine theoretical background (that determines what it is that they measure) with defined set of questions and statistical processing of results.
The willingness to cooperate and actual cooperation are commonly used as an evidence and a measure of trust. The actual value (level of trust, level of trustworthiness) is assessed from the difference between the observed behaviour and the theoretical behaviour that should have been observed in the absence of any cooperation.
The outcome of empirical measurements is essential to verify hypothesis, and it serves as the ultimate reference point in simulating human confidence in artificial environments.
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