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Prof @MIT - I've left X, you can find me on BlueSky at @dgrand.bsky.social

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David G. Rand @dgrand.bsky.social
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🚨Out in Science!🚨 Conspiracy beliefs famously resist correction, ya? WRONG: We show brief convos w GPT4 reduce conspiracy beliefs by ~20%! -Lasts over 2mo -Works on entrenched beliefs -Tailored AI response rebuts specific evidence offered by believers 1/
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David G. Rand @dgrand.bsky.social
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@martinjanello I have in general left X, but did this post as a special occasion bc of Meta's announcement and the desire to get a message to the folks on X
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David G. Rand @dgrand.bsky.social
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@MichaelJLewisII @elonmusk @GordPennycook @zlisto @_mohsen_m Thanks!! We definitely aim to do rigorous, unbiased science
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David G. Rand @dgrand.bsky.social
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@MichaelJLewisII @elonmusk @GordPennycook @zlisto @_mohsen_m Ya agreed, I don't put much stake in the bot sentinel scores. They went into the paper mostly as a control variable...
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David G. Rand @dgrand.bsky.social
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@MichaelJLewisII @elonmusk @GordPennycook @zlisto @_mohsen_m We aren't able to verify those scores - but to the extent that a social media platform were to use them in the pursuit of a (politically unbiased) goal to reduce bots, our data indicate that Republicans would be much more likely to get suspended than Democrats
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David G. Rand @dgrand.bsky.social
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@SJDM_Tweets @Schropes @kobih You can access @tomstello_ 's Qualitrics materials, video tutorial etc for integrating LMMs into Qualitrics here
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David G. Rand @dgrand.bsky.social
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@CaulfieldTim @jonathanstea @GordPennycook @srmarcon @BlakeMMurdoch @angie_rasmussen @doritmi These kind of patterns still have the obvious alternative explanation of Trump supporters getting exposed to more false claims and therefore having more inaccurate beliefs. That is, a causal arrow from support to belief rather than the other way around
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David G. Rand @dgrand.bsky.social
3 months
RT @RobbWiller: If you had to pick *1* measure of racial attitudes to predict white Americans' Trump support, we find opposition to anti-ra…
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RT @oiioxford: NEW: According to Oxford and MIT researchers @_mohsen_m, @DG_Rand, and @cameron_martel_, social media users are more likely…
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David G. Rand @dgrand.bsky.social
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@ShaneFs5cents @yzilber @robsica It's this new paper by Nick and Gord
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"On the role of analytic thinking in religious belief change: Evidence from over 50,000 participants in 16 countries" ✍️Michael N Stagnaro & @GordPennycook Key finding: Reflection is associated with belief change independent of the direction of change.
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David G. Rand @dgrand.bsky.social
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RT @CognitionJourn: "On the role of analytic thinking in religious belief change: Evidence from over 50,000 participants in 16 countries"…
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David G. Rand @dgrand.bsky.social
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RT @alineholzwarth: Are AIs the misinformation machines? Or are we humans the originals? In our latest episode of the Behavioral Design Pod…
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David G. Rand @dgrand.bsky.social
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RT @GordPennycook: Feel like passing the time while anxiously waiting for the election? I was on 3 fun podcasts recently #1: You Are Not S…
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David G. Rand @dgrand.bsky.social
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RT @davidmcraney: An interview with the scientists who created Debunkbot, an AI/LLM that reliably reduces belief in conspiracy theories via…
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RT @notsmartblog: New episode — an interview with the scientists who created Debunkbot, an AI that reliably reduces belief in conspiracy th…
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RT @kakape: So what have I learnt about #misinformation research? I tried to condense it into a list of the 5 biggest challenges the field…
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David G. Rand @dgrand.bsky.social
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RT @_JenAllen: Great article from @kakape about the five biggest challenges facing misinformation researchers highlighting some of our rece…
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RT @CaulfieldTim: 5 biggest challenges facing misinformation researchers 1) Defining it 2) Everything is politica…
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David G. Rand @dgrand.bsky.social
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@felix_rusche @yu_evsyukova @Econ_Mill Wow, congratulations guys!! Amazing outcome
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