Will Jettinghoff

I use data to answer questions about people |
6th yr PhD @UBCPsych | Data Scientist (NLP) @UBCDSI

[Ian Hohm @Ian_Hohm]

Thrilled to announce our new paper in @PNASNews!

Do the moral values people endorse change with the seasons 🌤️?

My co-authors and I present evidence that suggests (for some moral values) the answer is yes. https://t.co/MM03tNIHzq

[Mohammad Atari @MohammadAtari90]

My 'GPTology' paper, on perils and opportunities in using LLMs in social science, is now published in @PNASNexus

https://t.co/yXwIXWiePq

[Tian Yang @tianyangyt]

Contrary to chilling effects, displaying IP locations may NOT reduce incivility. Our study suggests that IP locations, which seem apolitical, may signal ideological identities, fueling group identification and facilitating intergroup behaviors (e.g., uncivil name-calling).

[Steve Rathje @steverathje2]

Why does out-group animosity go viral, even though most people say they don't want it to go viral?

@g_heltzel finds that extreme partisans (who engage more with politicians online) prefer tweets that express out-group animosity, but moderates don't:

https://t.co/vZhMmheWme

[Roberto Rocha @robroc]

Woot! My lightning talk pitch to the #JournalismAI Festival was accepted! I'll show how @WillJettinghoff and I pit ChatGPT against Claude to see which one is better at standardizing inconsistent company names.

https://t.co/j9FmXADaFE

[Will Jettinghoff @WillJettinghoff]

Maybe creating a view-only link to the registration triggered it being labelled as "modified"?

[Will Jettinghoff @WillJettinghoff]

Has anyone else experienced the OSF website saying that they *modified* a document that they merely *viewed*? I *viewed* a pre-reg PDF yesterday, and today it's telling me I modified that doc yesterday. But I didn't even download it, or upload a new doc.

[Will Jettinghoff @WillJettinghoff]

@eric_knowles Not exactly what you're looking for but: https://t.co/bcNgVVRohl

[CLS @ChengleiSi]

How can we humans verify the truthfulness of LLM outputs (or any claims you see on the Internet)? Should we ask ChatGPT (#LLMs)? Search on Google (retrieval)? Are they complementary?

Tldr: LLMs Help Humans Verify Truthfulness - Except When They Are Convincingly Wrong!

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[Megan Foster @ShaneFs5cents]

Two academics each got their PhDs in the same year. Each has same # of publications & same # of citations.

You can (& must) award tenure to exactly One of them.

ALL of A's pubs are on the same topic.
NONE of B's pubs are on the same topic.

To whom would you award tenure?

[Pew Research Global @pewglobal]

What Makes Life Meaningful? Views From 17 Advanced Economies
https://t.co/oIfVB9Su5o

[Mohammad Atari @MohammadAtari90]

🚨 Out today w/ @JonHaidt

Ownership is (likely to be) a moral foundation

"We caution against ignoring cultural variation in ownership norms and against explaining complex, contested moral phenomena using a monist approach."

Commentary on an excellent piece by @PascalBoyerUSA

[Rohan Alexander @RohanAlexander]

The IJF is making a public dataset of the stocks, bonds and real estate portfolios of every MP and MPP nationwide. Please subscribe if you're able to.

[Zane Schwartz @ZaneSchwartz]

We at @IJFMedia are building Canada's first database tracking politician's financial assets, and we need your help!

We're making a public dataset of the stocks, bonds and real estate portfolios of every Member of Parliament, MPP and MLA nationwide.

[Mohammad Atari @MohammadAtari90]

🔔 New working paper! 🔔

WEIRD in, WEIRD out.

[Paul Bloom @paulbloomatyale]

One of the smartest and most depressing discussions of psychology I've seen in a long time, by the always-interesting @a_m_mastroianni
https://t.co/7kXUNyPMfP

[Iris van Rooij 💭 @IrisVanRooij]

Honestly, I think the angle in this
@Nature editorial is a mistake. We can/should see through the LLM facade using theory (formal, computational, cognitive) and not to dissolve in further hyperempiricism that only gives false credibility to these decoys. https://t.co/avNlNCrsIh

[Mohammad Atari @MohammadAtari90]

Our paper on culture and morality is out in JPSP.

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[Investigative Journalism Foundation @IJFMedia]

This summer, three students are joining the Investigative Journalism Foundation through the University of British Columbia’s Data Science for Social Good program.

https://t.co/5sl2vjGbJG

[David G. Rand @dgrand.bsky.social @DG_Rand]

🚨Out in PNAS!🚨

Political microtargeting has caused great concern (eg Cambridge Analytica)

But does it actually WORK?

To find out we quantified the persuasive advantage of political microtargeting for US issue advocacy

The answer is complicated...
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https://t.co/mwRhItgtG4