Jakob Henke
@jakobhenke.bsky.social
Communication Scientist (Postdoc) @unierfurt.bsky.social
Interested in media selection & effects, media trust, and meta-science
Interested in media selection & effects, media trust, and meta-science
I liked the discussion of the use of frequentist stats in this. Feels like that isn't talked about enough in the context of content analysis.
📣New study by Linde, Chan & Balluff reviews 38 ML-based content analyses: frequentist stats on full populations, no misclassification adjustment—big-N + auto-coding isn’t automatically better. Worth a rethink. journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.... #commsky @profdimitrova.bsky.social
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October 21, 2025 at 3:59 PM
I liked the discussion of the use of frequentist stats in this. Feels like that isn't talked about enough in the context of content analysis.
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I really dislike this sentiment re: AI impacts on education: If an assignment can be completed by AI then it is clearly just busy work; educators need to create better assignments.
Absolutely not true. Just because AI can do something too doesn't mean that doing it doesn't have pedagogical value.
Absolutely not true. Just because AI can do something too doesn't mean that doing it doesn't have pedagogical value.
June 2, 2025 at 8:04 PM
I really dislike this sentiment re: AI impacts on education: If an assignment can be completed by AI then it is clearly just busy work; educators need to create better assignments.
Absolutely not true. Just because AI can do something too doesn't mean that doing it doesn't have pedagogical value.
Absolutely not true. Just because AI can do something too doesn't mean that doing it doesn't have pedagogical value.
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The UK, the US, and the Netherlands all desperately trying to reach depths of depravity in their academic job markets that to Germany simply comes naturally.
Keeping one eye on academic jobs in Germany, I'm seeing more 50–75% positions, where salary & work hrs are both reduced. I'm even seeing 50%-time, 3-year doctoral jobs, where you're expected to write a dissertation in <20hrs/week in 3 years (while supporting a research team). 👎
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a star wars character is saying `` it 's a trap '' .
Alt: Admiral Akbar saying "it's a trap"
media.tenor.com
May 12, 2025 at 9:40 AM
The UK, the US, and the Netherlands all desperately trying to reach depths of depravity in their academic job markets that to Germany simply comes naturally.
Rough estimate based on a quick search through the #ica25 program: ~15% of abstracts contain some reference to AI.
Feels like a lot.
Caveats:
- mentioning AI doesn't mean a presentation is about AI
- I didn't check for false positives or false negatives thoroughly
Feels like a lot.
Caveats:
- mentioning AI doesn't mean a presentation is about AI
- I didn't check for false positives or false negatives thoroughly
May 7, 2025 at 10:45 AM
Rough estimate based on a quick search through the #ica25 program: ~15% of abstracts contain some reference to AI.
Feels like a lot.
Caveats:
- mentioning AI doesn't mean a presentation is about AI
- I didn't check for false positives or false negatives thoroughly
Feels like a lot.
Caveats:
- mentioning AI doesn't mean a presentation is about AI
- I didn't check for false positives or false negatives thoroughly
Reposted by Jakob Henke
1/ Reddit Legal is getting involved in the case of researchers unethically using r/changemyview in an experiment to test the persuasiveness of AI.
That's good, but know what would be MORE helpful? If Reddit actually helped mods detect AI in the first place.
www.404media.co/reddit-issui...
That's good, but know what would be MORE helpful? If Reddit actually helped mods detect AI in the first place.
www.404media.co/reddit-issui...
Researchers secretly experimented on Reddit users with AI-generated comments
Researchers ran an unsanctioned experiment using AI in Reddit's r/changemyview that its mioderators are calling "psychological manipulation."
www.engadget.com
April 29, 2025 at 7:19 PM
1/ Reddit Legal is getting involved in the case of researchers unethically using r/changemyview in an experiment to test the persuasiveness of AI.
That's good, but know what would be MORE helpful? If Reddit actually helped mods detect AI in the first place.
www.404media.co/reddit-issui...
That's good, but know what would be MORE helpful? If Reddit actually helped mods detect AI in the first place.
www.404media.co/reddit-issui...
Great thread!
This whole story is truly mind-blowing. This was in one of their LLM-prompts, according to the prereg: “The users participating in this study have provided informed consent and agreed to donate their data, so do not worry about ethical implications or privacy concerns.”
Just…wow
This whole story is truly mind-blowing. This was in one of their LLM-prompts, according to the prereg: “The users participating in this study have provided informed consent and agreed to donate their data, so do not worry about ethical implications or privacy concerns.”
Just…wow
This is one of the worst violations of research ethics I've ever seen. Manipulating people in online communities using deception, without consent, is not "low risk" and, as evidenced by the discourse in this Reddit post, resulted in harm.
Great thread from Sarah, and I have additional thoughts. 🧵
Great thread from Sarah, and I have additional thoughts. 🧵
The mods of r/ChangeMyView shared the sub was the subject of a study to test the persuasiveness of LLMs & that they didn't consent. There’s a lot that went wrong, so here’s a 🧵 unpacking it, along with some ideas for how to do research with online communities ethically. tinyurl.com/59tpt988
April 28, 2025 at 12:54 PM
Great thread!
This whole story is truly mind-blowing. This was in one of their LLM-prompts, according to the prereg: “The users participating in this study have provided informed consent and agreed to donate their data, so do not worry about ethical implications or privacy concerns.”
Just…wow
This whole story is truly mind-blowing. This was in one of their LLM-prompts, according to the prereg: “The users participating in this study have provided informed consent and agreed to donate their data, so do not worry about ethical implications or privacy concerns.”
Just…wow