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Research Methods
3 posts tagged Research Methods, newest first.
Research participants who pay themselves
A country quiz got fifteen minutes of careful answers and a referral out of me, for nothing. What it would take to build a research study that recruits itself the same way through social media, and what the free participants cost you in bias.
Pruning the LLM context beats the maximalist approach
An agent I built for an HCI study in March could search a chunked psychology textbook, carry memory across tool calls, reach a few MCP servers and run a web search, on every question. Calling all of them every time turned out to be the wrong default.
A warm-up phase for the mental rotation task
A term essay: the linear relation between rotation angle and response time may be part practice effect, and a distinctive shape may hint at which axis to turn. A redesign that spends the learning before anything is measured.