Nature paper finds LLMs match observed effects across 70 social science studies
RobbWiller · x · 2026-07-23
A new Nature paper asks whether LLMs can predict the outcomes of social science experiments.
Across 70 preregistered studies, the authors report a strong correspondence between LLM-predicted and observed effects, with a correlation of r = .85. The result suggests that LLMs can capture substantial regularities in social science experiments, at least in the settings tested here.
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