Levi Baker

Oh wow!

Some of this really reminds me of Daft Punk's Random Access Memories (esp. Get Lucky)

"Can large language models stand in for human participants?
Many social scientists seem to think so"

Who!? Who are those social scientists? lol

Maybe the real crisis was the failed replications we made along the way?

When you said "a few years ago", i was expecting "[insert topic] in the time of the replication crisis". Thanks for shattering my illusion that we are still in the mid-2010's =p

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Yep yep, that definitely makes sense. Like you said, there is just an abundance of correct choices =)

Great list! Love seeing that X-ray Spex in there. My only complaint is the lack of Hole but that's only because Courtney is due for her redemption arc and Live Through This was the best mainstream grunge album imo.

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Michelle does it each semester and her students love it. @chops310.bsky.social has a paper on how to use it in the classroom and in the supplemental materials, there are slides and instructions.

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True true. I mean, I would wager that at least 90% of our college sophomores are sentient ;)

Given the rise in mturk/prolific bots and LLM "participants", college sophomores have become the gold standard.

Yea, that was my first thought. They can easily audio record lectures, upload that to the AI for summaries, etc...

Post a GIF of who you wanted to be as a kid!

Are SONA and Experimetrix (now owned by SONA) the only alternatives for managing research participant pools? I can't find any obvious competitors online.

Congrats!! I've got a couple friends who did their grad/postdoc work at Wash U and they loved their time there

@drandreahoward.bsky.social, hold my beer..

Latent class growth models are worse than useless, and we've known this for more than 20 years.

(See Bauer 2007)

This also applies to audience members asking questions. Just because the speaker can hear you from row 4 does not mean that the audience in row 30 can also hear you.

YouTube video by Aaron Stingray Wayne's World Theme Song (Noah's Arcade Intro)

It reminds me of when Noah's Arcade sponsored Wayne's World and it just started feeling weird.

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It sure is polished, isn't it?

That Bon Iver is pretty solid

That was a great thesis =)

We often have to collect social security numbers (are those similar?) to issue larger payments (>$600) to participants because participants are supposed to report payments that large as income. Of course, we keep those data quite secure, never link them with the rest of the data, etc...

Honest question: Can anyone explain why registered reports aren't the default in psychology? Are there good reasons why publications, and the rewards that come from publishing, are tied to the obtained results rather than the ideas and methods?

ha! It actually reminds me of a talk I saw a few years ago where the speaker said, "Study 1 was a community study" and then when we got to the methods, the "community sample" was MTurk. As someone who actually does community research, this bothered me more than it should.

We just finished discussing that Cialdini article in grad methods. It's still a classic and it's become even more relevant with the rise of MTurk and Prolific.

Even accepting the premise that AI produces useful writing (which no one should), using AI in education is like using a forklift at the gym. The weights do not actually need to be moved from place to place. That is not the work. The work is what happens within you.

Hell yea, hope you have a good time!

Pro tip: go see your local cover band. Although some are meh, the vast majority are really great and some are better than the originals. They are typically a blast and cheap (~$20). We all bitch about ticket prices for big acts but you often get a better show from a <$30 show.