LLMs as Qualitative Labs: Simulating Social Personas for Hypothesis Generation
Analysis
Key Takeaways
- •Introduces a method for sociological persona simulation using LLMs.
- •Aims to generate qualitative hypotheses about social groups' interpretations of new information.
- •Demonstrates the method with a case study on climate policy reception.
“By generating naturalistic discourse, it overcomes the lack of discursive depth common in vignette surveys, and by operationalizing complex worldviews through natural language, it bypasses the formalization bottleneck of rule-based agent-based models (ABMs).”