@ryancbriggs Even the very top journals (Nature, Science) triage submissions by author affliation. Or at least that is the most benign explanation for why they fail to use double-blinding.
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david comerford
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david comerford
@behavioraldave
Judgment and decision making researcher, Economics Division and Behavioural Science Centre, University of Stirling.
Beigetreten Temmuz 2013
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We were already on this path, but I think LLMs will push this much harder.
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Prediction: in the short-to-medium term LLMs will make the reputation of the researcher matter more for whether or not we view results as credible because it will become too hard to read everything and people will want shortcuts for filtering. Again, this hits juniors hardest.
Daniel Litt@littmath
Need new norms of communication around this too. Hard to adequately and politely communicate when output is “not even wrong,” and time-consuming to find errors (if the text is even clear enough to allow this). Tempting to just say “it’s slop, I’m afraid”…
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@ryancbriggs Agreed! And if the merit of an idea is judged by who conceived it then we are practising something other than science.
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theconversation.com/will-booking-a…. A comment asks if behavioural science the right discipline to think through the consequences of boycotts? If not, which is? #stirbsc
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Brilliant newspaper ad for blood donation increases donations, saves lives: tinyurl.com/qannh4y
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BBC r4's Today & Gallup are looking for 2 questions to pose to 60k people worldwide. The story's here: goo.gl/3UR9E #AskTheWorld
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Why do people want jobs they won't like? Peter Ubel & I use experiments to explain in this new paper in JEBO: goo.gl/EOvH8
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