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It doesn't matter whether they understand the other person's beliefs or not; the question is, what do they actually believe experiments will show about the world, before performing the experiments? If they truly expect that there's a dragon in their garage, they'll expect results consistent with having a dragon in their garage; if they don't actually believe that, they'll make predictions consistent with not having a dragon in their garage.

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They believe that you will see X because you believe Y, while they will see P because they believe Q. They believe that Y-ers' worldviews cause them to interpret P as X, and blind them to seeing X as P. They don't believe that there is a neutral substrate of observation that everyone can agree on beforehand.

I don't completely disagree with what you're saying, I am just trying to point out that the game goes many levels deep. A strategy that leads to victory on level 1, "tell me more about this dragon", is not going to work on level 2.

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