Maya Braun

@mayabraun.bsky.social

German Postdoctoral Researcher @ Ghent Health Psychology Lab (Ghent University) and Institute of Implementation Science in Health Care (University of Zürich) linktr.ee/MayaBraun she/her Intersectional feminist

There *are* legitimate use cases for this kind of stuff! Simulation studies! Synthetic data for a preregistered analysis plan prior to an actual study! But this isn't being marketed as that. It's advertised as a cheaper, faster alternative to humans. Temu we-have-results-at-home survey results.

Sabrina Norwood@sabrinanorwood.bsky.social · 9mo ago

Did you know that from tomorrow, Qualtrics is offering synthetic panels (AI-generated participants)? Follow me down a rabbit hole I'm calling "doing science is tough and I'm so busy, can't we just make up participants?"

Text reads: About synthetic panels
Recruiting the right participants for a study can be difficult. You may not get the exact demographics you need, and the shorter the deadline, the less sure you can be that everyone will answer on time. One possible solution can be to use synthetic panels.

Synthetic panels are powered by a first party proprietary AI model developed here at Qualtrics. Our synthetic panel is trained on thousands of responses from a variety of demographic backgrounds in order to more accurately predict how certain populations would respond to a survey.

Our synthetic panel is based on the United States General Population, and is only available in English. This panel comes with ready-made quotas and target breakouts in order to represent your chosen population and make it easy to launch your survey right away.

In the context of epistemic iteration, I have been thinking about the metaphor of cartography: diverse maps, often "wrong", but useful to start exploring, leading to new maps embedded in the practice of use (and often still "wrong" post hoc). Is there any good reading on the hist and philo of maps?

Join us at the 14th Conference of the International Society for Critical Health Psychology at the University of Galway this summer! This conference will be of interest to anyone interested in the intersection of health and social justice. Rarely has this been of more importance! www.ischp2025.ie

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Last week, I had the great honour to visit the LAMHESS lab of the Université Côte d'Azur to talk about my experiences using ontologies in behavioural sciences, and have some great co-working sessions! Interested in what we talked about? You can find my slides here: osf.io/nqdrb

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