Nature paper finds LLMs can predict social science experiments with r=.85
RobbWiller · x · 2026-07-23
Paper overview
In Nature, the authors ask whether LLMs can predict the outcomes of social science experiments.
Evaluation setup
- 70 preregistered studies
- 469 experimental effects
- 119,330 participants
- GPT-4 was prompted with study materials and demographic profiles, then its simulated responses were used to estimate treatment effects
Result
The paper reports a strong correspondence of r = .85 between predicted and observed effects, suggesting LLMs may be useful for augmenting experimental social science.
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