Expected Parrot

[Nerd Stuff]: Research Surveys should be Version-controlled files

And with Expected Parrot, they are!

Jul 31 • John Horton

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We can do that! Best Practices for Dealing with Randomness in Language Model Outputs

How Expected Parrot embodies many best practices out of the box

Jul 29 • John Horton

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Twitter Proposes; Prolific Disposes - Part I

Using Expected Parrot to test "promising" Ideas with real humans

Jul 23 • John Horton

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Marginal Ideas

Using Expected Parrot to find clusters of opportunities

Jul 22 • John Horton and Amir Sariri

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Your Ideas Are Terrible---Find Out Cheaply, in Private

Using Expected Parrot for "pre-mortem" simulations

Published on Expected Parrot • Jul 17

Your Ideas Are Terrible---Find Out Cheaply, in Private

Using Expected Parrot for "pre-mortem" simulations

Jul 17 • John Horton

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A Patriotic Experiment in AI-Powered Research

Expected Parrot can be used for reproducible data labeling.

Jul 16 • John Horton

Test Your Survey on Synthetic Respondents Before You Waste a Single Real One

How to do this easily with Expected Parrot

Jul 15 • John Horton

September 2025

Designing and Simulating Forecasting Questions with EDSL

How to use LLM-powered agents to generate structured datasets from ranges, rationales, and free-text forecasts

Sep 23, 2025 • Expected Parrot and Robin Horton

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August 2025

Teaching AI simulations? Get free credits for your students and research projects.

We have ready-to-use materials for teaching LLM-based simulations with our open-source tools, and free credits for getting started. Earn more free…

Aug 17, 2025 • Expected Parrot and Robin Horton

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July 2025

How to launch a survey with LLMs and humans

Our tools let you design and run the same survey with AI agents and human respondents, and seamlessly compare results.

Jul 22, 2025 • Expected Parrot and Robin Horton

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Bring your own keys or mix and match

A key feature of Expected Parrot is that you can always use your own keys for LLMs and human participant platforms, or you can use your Expected Parrot…

Jul 18, 2025 • Expected Parrot and Robin Horton

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