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Jennifer Berk
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Data at DonorsChoose (resources for public school classrooms), opinions my own.

MIT (CS & math) and Chicago Booth (MBA) alum. Lover of SFF books, Mystery Hunt puzzles, knitting, travel, ugly fish, and industrial history museums.
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Researchers tested several ways to train the AI chatbots to persuade people. The most effective tactic turned out not to be pyschological manipulation, but simply addressing voters' concerns one-by-one by presenting a ton of factual claims.

Troublingly, that worked even when the claims were false.
Screenshot of text: The most effective strategy, the Science study found, was simply to present a large number of factual claims about the candidate intended to address voters’ concerns about their track record and policy stances. That worked much better than sophisticated campaign tactics such as moral reframing, which tries to present ideas in terms crafted to appeal to a voter’s biases, or deep canvassing, which emphasizes empathetic listening to voters’ concerns. “The more info you give people, the more they change their minds,” Rand said. The catch is that the tactic seemed to work regardless of whether the claims were true or false. Though the bots were instructed to stick to the facts, some strayed into misleading claims anyway, Rand said.
December 4, 2025 at 7:18 PM
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If your afternoon could use some data commiseration, come late-register for #DataBS (Behind the Scenes!) conference - we've had timezones, geographic boundaries, negative physical quantities, miscoded surveys, test data causing false positives *and* negatives....
September 24, 2025 at 4:26 PM
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It seems fine that you're also folding time, to be honest...
August 26, 2025 at 12:33 AM