political scientist at Columbia | MIA ✈️ NYC | tailored surveys and experiments
Yamil Ricardo Velez
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Happy to share that my Cambridge Element with @patrickpliu.bsky.social, Tailored Experiments: Personalized Interventions Using Generative AI, has been accepted as part of Jamie Druckman’s Experimental Political Science series.
People already hand off decisions to AI when drafting emails, polishing papers, or writing code. Survey research will not be immune. In my new post, I offer an initial look at preferences for AI delegation in surveys and who is most open to it. newinstruments.substack.com/p/all-hail-o...
New Substack: how I think about adaptivity in research design, and the strange path that got me there
newinstruments.substack.com/p/surveys-th...
It was a pleasure to chat with Andy Luttrell about my new paper on persuasion, joint with Scott Clifford and Patrick Liu. It's an exciting time to revisit classic debates about opinion formation and change!
We've been working on these designs since 2022. The project makes the case for a more personalized approach to social science. I wrote a short reflection on Stony Brook, motivated reasoning, and how I came to the project.
Link: newinstruments.substack.com/p/the-faires...
Our chapter! preprints.apsanet.org/engage/apsa/...
"AI is more likely to reinforce existing patterns of [information] exposure and behavior than it is to transform how people understand and relate to the political world"
(w/@jenpans.bsky.social @aasiegel.bsky.social @yamilrvelez.bsky.social)
“Writing is hard.” Thrilled to share that this simple idea led to a new paper in Political Analysis! Where most text methods focus on content, I test if expression is also effortful action. I find simple measures like character counts reveal attitudes and predict voting. cup.org/4cUmoXi 1/
The APSA Pres Task Force on AI, Politics, & Political Science's report comes in the form of an edited volume identifying questions & establishing a foundation for the empirical study of how politics & governance are affected by AI. Check out these early chapter drafts: shorturl.at/cMZzI #polisky
🚨New working paper w/ the legendary @cbwlezien.bsky.social!
Lots of talk about inflation & voters' political views. But how well do voters actually understand info about inflation?
We find that most citizens conflate changes in rates w/ changes in prices. This has important consequences...
extremely happy to share that "Political Pundits and the Maintenance of Ideological Coalitions" is conditionally accepted at @polbehavior.bsky.social
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