🌻 Improving rigour in the use of AI in social science.
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How can we improve rigour and even reproducibility when using AI in social science? This chapter suggests some answers.
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Just add rigour Three do’s and don’ts
A lot of evaluation work is a kind of text analysis: processing reports, interview transcripts, etc. A bit like qualitative social science research. So this little piece is for evaluators in particular and (qualitative) social scientists in general.
Trust the algorithm, not the AI
I often hear concerns about algorithms and AI, in everyday life as well as in evaluation, taking over our lives or making us submit to decisions made by machines.
What’s your positionality, robot
Nowadays, people are using AI for text analysis. Many of us worry about AI’s "hidden biases”. What to do about that?
You have to tell the AI what game we are playing right now
It's strange how often this happens: