Kris Hardies
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Artikel is het lezen waard. De nodige nuance en realisme waar nodig. Niet dat ik het met iedere zin eens ben, maar dat hoeft ook niet.
> Among the signatories is Luc Steels, "the father of AI in Belgium." And he's not the only Belgian scientist supporting the resistance to "so-called 'AI' technologies." Apache spoke with Steels and co. "Universities encouraging students to use ChatGPT? I'm stunned"
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Ik heb geen toegang tot Apache, maar we bespraken de opiniepaper van Guest et al. deze week in de leesgroep van onze faculteit. Dat leverde een boeiend gesprek op, maar we vonden toch allemaal dat het maar een zwakke paper was – ja, het is een opiniestuk, maar toch een wetenschappelijk.
Thanks for sharing! Interesting piece.
Do you perhaps have a link to any such efforts? Or even better, critical discussions of such efforts?
Such repositories likely being a bad idea was 99% my motivation of writing the commentary :-) — "go look for a theory" (in psy/econ) is already some senior researchers' advice in this field.
Such repositories likely being a bad idea was 99% my motivation of writing the commentary :-) — "go look for a theory" (in psy/econ) is already some senior researchers' advice in this field.
Yeah, I agree. I also have no problem of pushing back against reviewers. Although in this case, it seems quite clear I'll need to do something to get it published. Taking it to a different journal will only make it harder. As a preprint it will have very little impact. Dilemma's...
They added that after I shared a draft of my commentary with them. It's better than nothing – ironically, it makes publication of the commentary harder. And we know how people are – "go look for a theory" in recent psy/econ papers is already advice given by some senior researchers in this field.
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Thanks for sharing!
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Thanks for sharing!
Another approach that I think could be useful is to run a survey among psychologists and have them evaluate the extent to which they believe that some of these theories are still taken seriously within their community or not.
This is easier said than done, especially for an outsider.
This is easier said than done, especially for an outsider.
I'd appreciate any suggestions on how to go about this!
In some cases, I guess there is sufficient evidence that has empirically discredited a specific theory ("terror management theory", for instance, I think).
So, if you know of such cases and can point me to useful references, please do!
In some cases, I guess there is sufficient evidence that has empirically discredited a specific theory ("terror management theory", for instance, I think).
So, if you know of such cases and can point me to useful references, please do!
I received two thoughtful reviews and an R&R -- commentaries are not a thing in our field, so they get the same treatment as any other paper. One suggested way to increase the "contribution" of my commentary is to offer more extensive vetting of these theories (i.e. help identify "Zombie" theories).
(*) Yes, yes, I know, some of the entries in the repository aren't even theories, but effects/phenomena. You don't have to tell me!
The assurance theory repository_A commentary_May 2025.docx
Some Theories Are Just Better: A Comment on Baaske, Carrillo, Gaynor, and Schmidt (2025) ABSTRACT: Baaske, Carrillo, Gaynor, and Schmidt (2025) present a conceptual framework of the assurance ecosyst...
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Some fields, like mine (accounting), look to fields like psychology for theoretical guidance. Accompanying a conceptual paper, these authors compiled this theory repository.
I don't think the repository will do our field any good, so I wrote a commentary: docs.google.com/document/d/1...
I don't think the repository will do our field any good, so I wrote a commentary: docs.google.com/document/d/1...
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Looking for help from the #psychology #metascience communities!
This www.theoryfinder.com/theory-repos...
online repository lists more than 200 theories (*), mostly from psychology. The authors' goal is to foster the use of theory ... I'd like some vetting of these theories. How do we do this?
This www.theoryfinder.com/theory-repos...
online repository lists more than 200 theories (*), mostly from psychology. The authors' goal is to foster the use of theory ... I'd like some vetting of these theories. How do we do this?
My bad! I meant it as support for your argument(s) – even if a scientific community (re)discovers something that was already known in another community, that's still knowledge.
Agree with all you're saying here, but I do understand it a bit when it's directed at economists – even though other disciplines should probably update their stereotypes about ours.
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And all while "laypeople mistake correlation for causation with large Ns" seems just as interesting (and closer to the actual evidence here – ignoring any potential data quality issues because I didn't see any screening or quality control).
Data quality of platforms and panels for online behavioral research
We examine key aspects of data quality for online behavioral research between selected platforms (Amazon Mechanical Turk, CloudResearch, and Prolific) and panels (Qualtrics and Dynata). To identify the key aspects of data quality, we first engaged ...
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Something like these?
pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC...
journals.plos.org/plosone/arti...
I don't know of any that have looked at it recently, but concerns over data quality have surely increased.
pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC...
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I don't know of any that have looked at it recently, but concerns over data quality have surely increased.
Neither the paper nor the preregistration documents seem to mention anything about it ... that's, euhm, a bit weird.
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Quite a lot of such research exists; just some examples:
journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....
link.springer.com/article/10.3...
I'd expect quite a lot of screening of participants [I think anyone using these sort of platforms understands the necessity of doing so]. Maybe not clearly reported?
journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....
link.springer.com/article/10.3...
I'd expect quite a lot of screening of participants [I think anyone using these sort of platforms understands the necessity of doing so]. Maybe not clearly reported?
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> Among the signatories is Luc Steels, "the father of AI in Belgium." And he's not the only Belgian scientist supporting the resistance to "so-called 'AI' technologies." Apache spoke with Steels and co. "Universities encouraging students to use ChatGPT? I'm stunned"
apache.be/2025/10/23/a...
apache.be/2025/10/23/a...
Als AI-wetenschappers zich verzetten tegen AI in het hoger onderwijs
Deze wetenschappers en filosofen roepen op tot kritisch denken over AI.
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Artikel is het lezen waard. De nodige nuance en realisme waar nodig. Niet dat ik het met iedere zin eens ben, maar dat hoeft ook niet.
And not really disagreeing with anything else, but I guess I'm thinking that it doesn't seem weird to me that we try to "close" things sooner nowadays than in the past given that science has become a much bigger (faster) enterprise. But yeh, often prematurely so.
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100% agree with the last point; the last section of an editorial I just wrote is titled "Science is hard" 😂
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Dat soort regels scheert dan natuurlijk wel weer alle domeinen (nodeloos) over dezelfde kam. In mijn domein (accounting) heeft de UGent enkele jaren geleden om die reden een ZAP-vacature niet ingevuld gekregen. En veel kans dat het dit jaar opnieuw zo zal zijn. Gelukkig is die regel er bij ons niet.
Thanks for sharing. I love Chang's work. One thing I've wondered about though – triggered more by your comments than Chang's work – is how transposable these historical accounts are to today's research (environment). Research looks quite different now than, say, 200y ago. Any thoughts on this?
These are only very small first steps towards the improvement of accounting research, but it is a start, an encouraging start.
Not much discussion on #Accounting #research here on Bluesky, but well ... maybe it's also interesting to some people outside of our small field.
Not much discussion on #Accounting #research here on Bluesky, but well ... maybe it's also interesting to some people outside of our small field.
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🧾 The very first paper is out as well!
It's a good paper, and it nicely showcases that it doesn't need to take long to publish high-quality research (it took less than 5 months, compared to the ~20 months it typically takes at the traditional top accounting journals).
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It's a good paper, and it nicely showcases that it doesn't need to take long to publish high-quality research (it took less than 5 months, compared to the ~20 months it typically takes at the traditional top accounting journals).
👉 lnkd.in/ebXhmViQ
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A big moment for #Accounting Open!
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🔥 My opening editorial is now out: "Shaping the Future of Accounting Research: Less, Better, More Interesting"
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🔓 Milestones unlocked:
🔥 My opening editorial is now out: "Shaping the Future of Accounting Research: Less, Better, More Interesting"
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In our applied econ program, all statistics courses use JMP.
No idea how that ever came to be, but hey, at least it's the same software for all these courses ... but then none of our faculty uses that, so most students will also encounter Stata, and/or R, and some of them Python.
No idea how that ever came to be, but hey, at least it's the same software for all these courses ... but then none of our faculty uses that, so most students will also encounter Stata, and/or R, and some of them Python.
Each year I teach test design I ask the master’s students how much R they’ve learned & there is a pleasant shift (lots of undergrad psych programs in Germany now teach R), but there’s always some variation—like one program relying on excel, and another that starts with R but then switches to SPSS?!
This is one of the things that really annoys me – already from when I was still a student myself.