Behavioral New World September 1, 2023 So how do we know? In last month’s newsletter, I wrote: Thus, the quality of the evidence we rely on in decision-making depends on three things: 1) the integrity of the original research; 2) how accurately that research is interpreted for broader audiences; and 3) whether the (non-fraudulent) research can be replicated.
"A journalist is more likely to write about a study that shows that signing an honesty pledge decreases cheating than to write about a study that shows that this simple intervention has little effect. A simple, easy-to-implement intervention has a significant effect? That’s interesting. It doesn’t have an effect? Less interesting. "
Some teachers/admins are implementing honesty pledges to deal with AI. Some people think it might have the opposite effect. I was sent this paper, and have not read it yet. All round it seems like a bad idea. https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3432445
"A journalist is more likely to write about a study that shows that signing an honesty pledge decreases cheating than to write about a study that shows that this simple intervention has little effect. A simple, easy-to-implement intervention has a significant effect? That’s interesting. It doesn’t have an effect? Less interesting. "
Some teachers/admins are implementing honesty pledges to deal with AI. Some people think it might have the opposite effect. I was sent this paper, and have not read it yet. All round it seems like a bad idea. https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3432445