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by DavidFerris 1058 days ago
Interesting idea! One of the problems with any primary research (surveys included) is the delay in collecting responses, which can take hours to weeks depending on sample, IR, incentives, etc. This would solve that!

It's not surprising that LLMs can predict the answers to survey questions, but really good primary research generates surprising insights that are outside of existing distributions. Have you found that businesses trust your results? I have found that most businesses don't trust survey research much at all, and this seems like it might be even less reliable.

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Context: I co-founded & sold survey software company (YC W20).

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Thank you!

Trust is one of the biggest issues we're trying to solve. This motivated the tSNE plots and similarity scores under 'Investigate Results', but we definitely have a long way to go. Generally speaking, survey practitioners trust us more than their clients (perhaps not surprising)

You might want to take a look at the papers i've linked here that go into this kind of research

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36868552