As far as I know, schizophrenics are usually aware of their unusual mental/epistemological status, so your thinking yourself normal (as I assume you do) screens off schizophrenia; another issue with schizophrenia is that I’ve read that schizophrenic hallucination are almost always confined to one modality—you hear someone behind you but if you look you see nothing, I imagine is how it works—so here too you would become aware of glitches or inconsistencies in your senses.
What you want is the situation where you are unaware of any issues and have an issue; which is where confabulating comes in handy, because some of them are just like that and will confabulate that they’re not confabulating.
I wouldn’t pick schizophrenia as a base-rate.
As far as I know, schizophrenics are usually aware of their unusual mental/epistemological status, so your thinking yourself normal (as I assume you do) screens off schizophrenia; another issue with schizophrenia is that I’ve read that schizophrenic hallucination are almost always confined to one modality—you hear someone behind you but if you look you see nothing, I imagine is how it works—so here too you would become aware of glitches or inconsistencies in your senses.
What you want is the situation where you are unaware of any issues and have an issue; which is where confabulating comes in handy, because some of them are just like that and will confabulate that they’re not confabulating.