Validating language models as study participants: How it’s being done, why it fails, and what works instead
Statistical Modeling, Causal Inference, and Social Science 2025-12-19
Summary:
This is Jessica. Earlier this year, I started paying attention to proposals to use LLMs to simulate participants in surveys and behavioral experiments. The idea is that LLMs can be prompted with experiment or survey instructions and a participant persona … Continue reading →