ResearchBuzz: FirehosePsyPost: Frequent AI chatbot use associated with lower grades among computer science students. “A new study has found that university students in a programming course who used artificial intelligence chatbots more frequently tended to have lower academic scores. The research, published in Computers in Human Behavior Reports, offers a detailed look into how students engage with these tools and […]
Only OhmI'd love to believe this, but the study fails to control for obvious confounding variables, particularly prior academic achievement. Once again, I am begging my fellow STEMMies: if you're going to dip a toe in social science research, get an actual social scientist on your team - or at least make sure that, at some point in your life, you've talked to an actual social scientist.