Welp, Gallup is no longer a source of viable anything, let along survey data:
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@gbargoud outlook not so good!
@octothorpe @gbargoud Isn't that what one of the pilots on the recent moon mission said?
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Welp, Gallup is no longer a source of viable anything, let along survey data:
February: Gallup says that due to cost reasons it will no longer do presidential approval polling
May: Gallup says it is exploring "digital twin" technology that replaces human respondents with AI/LLM-generated answers
Gallup Begins Research on Simulated Responses
Gallup is exploring whether AI-generated agents perform well in predicting people's responses and where they fall short.
Gallup.com (news.gallup.com)
@octothorpe I expected a venerable polling company at least, unlike the rest of the modern world, to understand the fundamental implications of basic statistical sampling methods on data validity. Alas.
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Welp, Gallup is no longer a source of viable anything, let along survey data:
February: Gallup says that due to cost reasons it will no longer do presidential approval polling
May: Gallup says it is exploring "digital twin" technology that replaces human respondents with AI/LLM-generated answers
Gallup Begins Research on Simulated Responses
Gallup is exploring whether AI-generated agents perform well in predicting people's responses and where they fall short.
Gallup.com (news.gallup.com)
»Gallup says it is exploring "digital twin" technology that replaces human respondents with AI/LLM-generated answers«
What #Gallup says instead:
»Simulated responses will not be used to produce Gallup’s published population estimates, and they will not replace direct measurement of people in our tracking research. […] We will always be transparent about our use of simulated responses and will never present them as human responses.«
From the linked text.The critical point is…
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»Gallup says it is exploring "digital twin" technology that replaces human respondents with AI/LLM-generated answers«
What #Gallup says instead:
»Simulated responses will not be used to produce Gallup’s published population estimates, and they will not replace direct measurement of people in our tracking research. […] We will always be transparent about our use of simulated responses and will never present them as human responses.«
From the linked text.The critical point is…
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…that they plan to filter research:
»Simulated approaches may also expand what is practically researchable, enabling organizations to explore attitudinal questions at a scale or speed that would otherwise be prohibitive, to model responses among hard-to-reach populations, or to test how different groups might react to novel stimuli before investing in full-scale data collection. In short, agent banks may help researchers and practitioners anticipate likely outcomes and support decision-making.« -
Welp, Gallup is no longer a source of viable anything, let along survey data:
February: Gallup says that due to cost reasons it will no longer do presidential approval polling
May: Gallup says it is exploring "digital twin" technology that replaces human respondents with AI/LLM-generated answers
Gallup Begins Research on Simulated Responses
Gallup is exploring whether AI-generated agents perform well in predicting people's responses and where they fall short.
Gallup.com (news.gallup.com)
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@noodlemaz thanks!
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@octothorpe I expected a venerable polling company at least, unlike the rest of the modern world, to understand the fundamental implications of basic statistical sampling methods on data validity. Alas.
@d_rift they have a lot of name recognition but often their methodologies are questionable, allowing the sponsor of the study to kinda numberwang the results they want to promote.
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@d_rift they have a lot of name recognition but often their methodologies are questionable, allowing the sponsor of the study to kinda numberwang the results they want to promote.
@octothorpe still; thanks for the heads-up on them moving from numberwang to "no number, all wang" territory.
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