Digital twins face growing skepticism as researchers embrace preregistration and simpler baselines
JessicaHullman · x · 2026-10-10
Jessica Hullman notes recent analyses paint a more skeptical picture of digital twins. Encouragingly, researchers are now preregistering studies, comparing against simpler baselines, and paying more attention to how well models recover individual variation rather than just predicting averages — a sign of methodological maturation.
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