Quentin André
@quentinandre.bsky.social
Assistant Prof. of Marketing @ CU Boulder. Open science, research methods, managerial and numerical cognition. ❤️Python 🐍.
Halloween is the best holiday. Change my mind.
November 1, 2025 at 12:41 AM
Halloween is the best holiday. Change my mind.
When it's Halloween, but your 2.5yo daughter insists that "we should bring the skeleton inside" and "make it cozy with a blankie and a pillow".
October 30, 2025 at 4:57 PM
When it's Halloween, but your 2.5yo daughter insists that "we should bring the skeleton inside" and "make it cozy with a blankie and a pillow".
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take this quiz then tell me you can win over low-info "moderates" on policy
it's just vibes all the way down
it's just vibes all the way down
Take this quiz to die instantly www.americansurveycenter.org/quiz/
Beyond the Ballot Quiz - The Survey Center on American Life
www.americansurveycenter.org
October 29, 2025 at 3:50 PM
take this quiz then tell me you can win over low-info "moderates" on policy
it's just vibes all the way down
it's just vibes all the way down
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An LLM-produced essay is tangible proof that a student doesn’t care, and yet responding to it properly requires hour upon hour of careful work. It’s asymmetrical and overwhelming.
October 28, 2025 at 12:57 PM
An LLM-produced essay is tangible proof that a student doesn’t care, and yet responding to it properly requires hour upon hour of careful work. It’s asymmetrical and overwhelming.
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Cheating with an LLM is the easiest thing in the world for a student to do, but it creates a massive, laborious headache for a prof, if you intend to take it seriously. There’s meetings, emails, discussions, moral dilemmas. It’s just incredibly burdensome, on top of everything else right now.
I had 9 meetings about students using Chat GPT/LLMs on their papers today.
If you want to know why professors burn out, ask anyone trying to teach critical thinking and writing skills to Freshmen....
If you want to know why professors burn out, ask anyone trying to teach critical thinking and writing skills to Freshmen....
October 28, 2025 at 12:55 PM
Cheating with an LLM is the easiest thing in the world for a student to do, but it creates a massive, laborious headache for a prof, if you intend to take it seriously. There’s meetings, emails, discussions, moral dilemmas. It’s just incredibly burdensome, on top of everything else right now.
Wait until you learn about common ways of doing segmentation analysis in marketing.
"Yeah, we ran a K-means algorithm, gave each cluster a cute name and a persona, and now we're making every decision based on whether Pumpkin-Spice Peggy or Truck-Nut Terry will like it".
"Yeah, we ran a K-means algorithm, gave each cluster a cute name and a persona, and now we're making every decision based on whether Pumpkin-Spice Peggy or Truck-Nut Terry will like it".
It’s astonishing how many researchers seem to believe that a cluster analysis is such a sensible analysis that it needn’t even be justified through a coherent research question. Just cluster analysis go brrrrr
October 27, 2025 at 7:10 PM
Wait until you learn about common ways of doing segmentation analysis in marketing.
"Yeah, we ran a K-means algorithm, gave each cluster a cute name and a persona, and now we're making every decision based on whether Pumpkin-Spice Peggy or Truck-Nut Terry will like it".
"Yeah, we ran a K-means algorithm, gave each cluster a cute name and a persona, and now we're making every decision based on whether Pumpkin-Spice Peggy or Truck-Nut Terry will like it".
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If, as a reviewer, you see an unusual statistical test being reported in a manuscript, it never hurts to double-check whether the test does what the authors claim.
Who knows, it might help a journal not publish inaccurate results.
Who knows, it might help a journal not publish inaccurate results.
October 3, 2025 at 3:41 PM
If, as a reviewer, you see an unusual statistical test being reported in a manuscript, it never hurts to double-check whether the test does what the authors claim.
Who knows, it might help a journal not publish inaccurate results.
Who knows, it might help a journal not publish inaccurate results.
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I have many thoughts about Charlie Kirk—and perhaps even more about the white elites, including some on the left, who insist we can’t hold multiple realities at once. We can. And we must.
A brief 🧵
A brief 🧵
September 13, 2025 at 5:08 PM
I have many thoughts about Charlie Kirk—and perhaps even more about the white elites, including some on the left, who insist we can’t hold multiple realities at once. We can. And we must.
A brief 🧵
A brief 🧵
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I'll admit, I was skeptical when they said Gemini was just like a bunch of PhDs. But I gotta admit they nailed it.
August 17, 2025 at 1:51 PM
I'll admit, I was skeptical when they said Gemini was just like a bunch of PhDs. But I gotta admit they nailed it.
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Very interesting post, which largely aligns with my views on theory.
I see another danger with Big Beautiful Theories: In a world in which researchers' degrees of freedom are insufficiently constrained, they become self-fulfilling.
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I see another danger with Big Beautiful Theories: In a world in which researchers' degrees of freedom are insufficiently constrained, they become self-fulfilling.
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I just became president of a scientific society and my first act was to disagree with one of my heroes...Arie Kruglanski gave a keynote arguing social psychology needs MORE Big Beautiful Theories. I think that's exactly backwards. Here's why...
Hasty Theories
Why Social Psychology Needs to Stop Rushing to Explain
open.substack.com
July 8, 2025 at 3:50 PM
Very interesting post, which largely aligns with my views on theory.
I see another danger with Big Beautiful Theories: In a world in which researchers' degrees of freedom are insufficiently constrained, they become self-fulfilling.
1/3
I see another danger with Big Beautiful Theories: In a world in which researchers' degrees of freedom are insufficiently constrained, they become self-fulfilling.
1/3
More from HBS' Amended Complaint. They claim to have evidence that Gino backdated a fabricated file to exonerate herself.
July 8, 2025 at 3:16 PM
More from HBS' Amended Complaint. They claim to have evidence that Gino backdated a fabricated file to exonerate herself.
Key claims from HBS
July 8, 2025 at 2:24 PM
Key claims from HBS
Do you remember Francesca Gino's claim on her website that HBS analyzed the "wrong data file" in their investigation, and that a "real file" proved her innocence?
HBS is now claiming that the "real file" was fabricated by Gino... and thus that Gino's claim was defamatory.
HBS is now claiming that the "real file" was fabricated by Gino... and thus that Gino's claim was defamatory.
July 8, 2025 at 1:06 PM
Do you remember Francesca Gino's claim on her website that HBS analyzed the "wrong data file" in their investigation, and that a "real file" proved her innocence?
HBS is now claiming that the "real file" was fabricated by Gino... and thus that Gino's claim was defamatory.
HBS is now claiming that the "real file" was fabricated by Gino... and thus that Gino's claim was defamatory.
Looks like the "Tariff" button is back on the resolute desk.
July 7, 2025 at 5:11 PM
Looks like the "Tariff" button is back on the resolute desk.
Super interesting thread. A stark reminder that any metric of "variance explained" is basically uninterpretable without contextualizing (i) the magnitude and variability of the treatment and (ii) the "baseline" variability of the outcome.
"If we could jointly analyze extended Korean families, we would likely find that the influence of the shared environment – which side of the border you ended up on – is not only real, even for something like height, but possibly trumps genetics."
Another contribution in the heritability debate. Makes a point I agree with: many of the important environmental causes vary by place and time and are marginalized in most h2 studies.
open.substack.com/pub/easthunt...
open.substack.com/pub/easthunt...
July 7, 2025 at 4:08 PM
Super interesting thread. A stark reminder that any metric of "variance explained" is basically uninterpretable without contextualizing (i) the magnitude and variability of the treatment and (ii) the "baseline" variability of the outcome.
I'll believe the Gen AI hype when a LLM can write a 10 page report without using the "This isn't just X: It's Y" structure 8673 times.
This isn't just annoying, it's aggravating.
This isn't just annoying, it's aggravating.
July 2, 2025 at 4:03 PM
I'll believe the Gen AI hype when a LLM can write a 10 page report without using the "This isn't just X: It's Y" structure 8673 times.
This isn't just annoying, it's aggravating.
This isn't just annoying, it's aggravating.
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Of course academics should not sue others for pointing out their faulty (*cough*) work.
But this is a bit like saying that mafiosi should not threaten witnesses. Doing that follows from being a mafioso, just as suing people who point out your fraud is part of the kind of person who commits fraud.
But this is a bit like saying that mafiosi should not threaten witnesses. Doing that follows from being a mafioso, just as suing people who point out your fraud is part of the kind of person who commits fraud.
June 25, 2025 at 5:08 PM
Of course academics should not sue others for pointing out their faulty (*cough*) work.
But this is a bit like saying that mafiosi should not threaten witnesses. Doing that follows from being a mafioso, just as suing people who point out your fraud is part of the kind of person who commits fraud.
But this is a bit like saying that mafiosi should not threaten witnesses. Doing that follows from being a mafioso, just as suing people who point out your fraud is part of the kind of person who commits fraud.
Francesca Gino doesn't do fraud.
She just has a lot of fraud happening to her.
(shamelessly stolen from a friend).
She just has a lot of fraud happening to her.
(shamelessly stolen from a friend).
“My promise is to work as hard as I can to present the material as fairly and clearly as I can to establish both the innocence of Francesca Gino and the injustice of the process that has led to this result.”
Now, that’s two entirely separate things.
substack.com/home/post/p-...
Now, that’s two entirely separate things.
substack.com/home/post/p-...
In defense of Francesca Gino
An argument to be made here, in words and a podcast
substack.com
June 8, 2025 at 8:07 PM
Francesca Gino doesn't do fraud.
She just has a lot of fraud happening to her.
(shamelessly stolen from a friend).
She just has a lot of fraud happening to her.
(shamelessly stolen from a friend).
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Francesca Gino: "I am deeply sad and disappointed that the University has concluded as it has. But now that this process is over, I am free to show why its conclusion is so clearly wrong. I will continue the fight and do everything in my power to right this wrong." www.linkedin.com/posts/france...
From the start, I have said that I did not commit any academic misconduct… | Francesca Gino
From the start, I have said that I did not commit any academic misconduct and I want to reconfirm that statement. And from the very start, Harvard has blocked me from defending myself publicly. Firs...
www.linkedin.com
May 29, 2025 at 5:23 PM
Francesca Gino: "I am deeply sad and disappointed that the University has concluded as it has. But now that this process is over, I am free to show why its conclusion is so clearly wrong. I will continue the fight and do everything in my power to right this wrong." www.linkedin.com/posts/france...
Two very skeptical birds on my hike today.
May 21, 2025 at 2:35 AM
Two very skeptical birds on my hike today.
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Dear colleagues teaching methods classes,
Have you included any of my papers/blog posts in your syllabus? If so, I'd be super grateful if you could send me a short note, either here or via email.
Thank you!
Have you included any of my papers/blog posts in your syllabus? If so, I'd be super grateful if you could send me a short note, either here or via email.
Thank you!
May 15, 2025 at 6:41 PM
Dear colleagues teaching methods classes,
Have you included any of my papers/blog posts in your syllabus? If so, I'd be super grateful if you could send me a short note, either here or via email.
Thank you!
Have you included any of my papers/blog posts in your syllabus? If so, I'd be super grateful if you could send me a short note, either here or via email.
Thank you!