Reading the collective's beliefs from its behaviour cannot tell apart a group that is uncertain from one whose members want different things, because both produce the same noisy actions; so behavioural readouts of the collective must be paired with members' stated preferences before anyone concludes what the collective believes.

Evidence 2 passages

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  when several generative models (or parameter values) result in the same behaviour, it is not possible to distinguish between them

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  a uniform preference prior would lead to random behaviour indistinguishable from that associated with a very low $\alpha$ value

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