Research

Applied statistics, psychometrics, behavioral science

Before running AI at Shakers, I spent years in academic applied statistics — psychometric measurement, multivariate methods, cross-cultural behavioral science. That work pays for itself daily now that evaluating LLMs is, in the end, a statistics problem in disguise.

Selected publications

• Well-being is more than happiness and life satisfaction: a multidimensional analysis of 21 countrieswith K. Ruggeri, Á. Maguire, S. Matz et al.Health and Quality of Life Outcomes · 2020 · 1,536 citations
• The general fault in our fault lineswith K. Ruggeri, B. Većkalov, L. Bojanić et al.Nature Human Behaviour · 2021 · 198 citations
• A community-sourced glossary of open scholarship termswith S. Parsons, F. Azevedo, M.M. Elsherif et al.Nature Human Behaviour · 2022 · 181 citations
• The globalizability of temporal discountingwith K. Ruggeri, A. Panin, M. Vdovic et al.Nature Human Behaviour · 2022 · 118 citations
• Dimensionality assessment in bifactor structures with multiple general factorswith M. Jiménez, F.J. AbadPsychological Methods · 2023 · 56 citations
• A Psychometric Review of the Five Facets Mindfulness Questionnairewith O. Lecuona, C. García-RubioAssessment · 2020 · 55 citations
• The persistence of cognitive biases in financial decisionswith K. Ruggeri, S. Ashcroft-Jones, G. Abate Romero Landini et al.Scientific Reports · 2023 · 38 citations
• Iteration of partially specified target matriceswith F.J. Abad, L.E. Garrido, J.R. BarradaMultivariate Behavioral Research · 2017 · 35 citations
• Improving bi-factor exploratory modelingwith F.J. Abad, L.E. GarridoMethodology: European Journal of Research Methods · 2019 · 29 citations
• On Omega Hierarchical Estimationwith F.J. Abad, L.E. GarridoMultivariate Behavioral Research · 2021 · 27 citations

Full publication list on Google Scholar.