David Rothschild

davmicrot.bsky.social

16 October 2026 15:52

www.nytimes.com/2026/10/13/o... Westwood's criticism of @lilymasonphd.bsky.social inadvertently illustrates her argument! By treating political symmetry as the neutral default, he places the burden on Mason to prove asymmetry, without imposing an equivalent burden on his symmetric model ...

Neil Sehgal

nsehgal.bsky.social

08 October 2026 19:03

🚨 New paper 🚨 Are your participants using AI to take your study? We conducted the first study directly observing AI assistance in online research, spanning 700K+ Prolific submissions. We found very rare, concentrated AI use, but gaps in safeguards. arxiv.org/abs/2610.09279

Micah G. Allen

micahgallen.com

22 September 2026 14:02

some good news... in this one example, mouse behavior is a dead giveaway of agentic browser usage. No idea if a simple instruction (make sure to use the mouse in a human way) could bypass it. But in this case, the mouse literally teleports around the screen.

Dr. Jason Jeffrey Jones

jason-jones.bsky.social

06 August 2026 20:11

Relevant: Most (but not all) US Prolific users on most days Strongly Disagree that they personally have been decapitated.🙅‍♂️😵 jasonjones.ninja/social-scien...

David Rothschild

davmicrot.bsky.social

01 June 2026 07:45

Preprint "Reply to Westwood: Questioning empirical evidence that AI survey contamination is real and substantial" w/ @soubhikbarari.bsky.social, Trent Buskirk, @andrewgordon.bsky.social, Sunshine Hillygus We respond to claims of "existential threat" of AI on survey research osf.io/preprints/so...