Across two studies (N = 120), we explored the development of children’s ability to calibrate the certainty of informant testimony with observable data that varied in the degree of predictive causal accuracy. In Study 1, four- and 5-year-olds heard a certain or uncertain explanation about deterministic causal relations. Five-year-olds learned better when the informant provided a certain, more calibrated explanation. In Study 2, children heard similar explanations about probabilistic relations, making the uncertain informant more calibrated. In an advance on previous calibration research, 5-year-olds learned better from an uncertain informant, but only when the explanation was attuned to the stochasticity of the data. These findings imply that the capacity to integrate, and learn efficiently from, distinct sources of knowledge emerges in the preschool years.