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Can Model Answer Probabilities Represent Survey Populations?
arXiv paper evaluating the option probabilities Jev returns against linked responses to 20 binary items from five archived survey waves, comparing population-only prediction, prediction given recorded answers, and sequential completion against survey records.
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Highlights
- Evaluates Jev option probabilities against 20 binary survey items from five archived waves.
- Compares population-only prediction, prediction given recorded answers, and sequential completion.
- Recorded answers can improve predictive scores while associations remain distorted.
- In one case Jev predicted 16% versus 56% in the survey for a conditional subgroup.
- Reversing question order produced different joint distributions in both tested cases.
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It evaluates the option probabilities returned by Jev, a TypeSafe decision model, against linked survey responses, checking predictive scores, answer frequencies, and associations rather than predictive accuracy alone.
Linked responses to 20 binary items drawn from five archived survey waves. Joint comparisons hold the starting population information fixed, and two three-question cases are completed in both question orders.
Three: population-only prediction, prediction given recorded answers, and sequential completion that uses generated answers to predict later responses.
No. Recorded answers can improve predictive scores while associations remain distorted, and large conditional errors also occur.
Among men who described themselves as having traditional values, Jev predicted 16% would see men and women as similar in workplace abilities, compared with 56% in the survey.
Yes. Sequential completion has mixed effects on joint validity, and reversing question order produces different joint distributions in both tested cases.
The evidence concerns selected binary tasks and one model version. The authors support validating the joint events a simulation uses and separating empirical constraints from model assumptions.
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