Malte Elson
@malte
Professor at @unibe.ch Meta Science ⸾ Science Trustworthiness Assessments ⸾ Research Methods ⸾ IT Security & Privacy ⸾ Technology Effects ⸾ Research Memes & @error.reviews
The Ministry of Peace concerns itself with war, the Ministry of Truth with lies, the Ministry of Love with torture, the Ministry of Plenty with starvation, and the new KINDEROASE daycare center at TU München with---
5. Wording asymmetry. The Slovak gambling item used the Slovak term "hazardné hry" term plus an English "gambling" clarifier; the gaming item used only the Slovak "hranie," which the authors note is ambiguous between gaming and gambling.
4. Careless responding No CR checks reported (although the "gambling is gambling" item is labelled a "control item"). Slovak completion times are extreme: 6.3% finished in under 3 min (UK 0.3%), 7.0% took over an hour (UK 0.7%), slowest >11 days. Hard to square with genuine survey engagement.
1. Control item fails. Five items almost everyone should endorse (e.g. "offline poker for real money is gambling"). In the UK, 9.3% did not (strongly) agree with at leastone; in Slovakia, 49.8% did. 22.6% don't (strongly) agree "gambling is gambling," while 17.1% (agree "frisbee is gambling."
8. In Panel B of Figs 2 & 3, the bars for the "Human Average" and "LLM Average" appear larger than the individual-sample bars they're presumably computed from. We couldn't work out how that's possible, may be an error.
They may seem intelligent at first glance but then they get fundamentals of the universe wrong
The forensic report is available here: storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us... Incredible stuff
Some research fields have a type of paper that basically asks: "What if a more expensive but less reliable machine can do [this] instead?"
Shocking to think that telling people to imagine eating ice cream is not the same as having them eat ice cream. Don't get me wrong, it's good someone is doing these studies, but the wild claims based on vignettes never cease to amaze me.
Total scam. I wired Julia the advertised amount and all I got was this lousy post card
When tests are used for decision-making, differences of this magnitude can lead to errors with potentially life-altering consequences (e.g., about intellectual disability)