Post #2175134
2026-05-03 15:28 UTC
There is a tsunami of fake social science research coming for us, and the American Sociological Association doesn’t care
https://familyinequality.wordpress.com/2026/03/07/there-is-a-tsunami-of-fake-social-science-research-coming-for-us-and-the-american-sociological-association-doesnt-care/ @philipncohen I am all for sharing code and data, of course within ethical and legal limits.
I agree it is striking that the ASA flagship journal has no transparency policy whatsoever. Even if LLMs had not surged over the past years, there would be a need for it. 1/ @openscience #OpenScience
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@ingorohlfing@mastodon.social 2026-05-03 15:32
@philipncohen@mastodon.social The demonstration that an LLM can produce a "publication ready" regression table that probably would be accepted as legit at least 7 times out of 10. (this is my guess) I am not sure such invention of regression tables is the biggest threat. 1) In this case, the data is publicly available, probably making it a matter of time until someone would fail to replicate the results and start asking questions. 2) Without a data-sharing requirement, the bigger risk may be that 2/