(USA)I’ve been using AI to do my Psychology research project
I’ve been using AI to do my psychology research project. I have worked on this project for a year. I’ve done a lot from creating the question, literature review, data collection, survey making, collecting participants , and writing up the final paper. I’ve used AI for a lot of my project to help me.
Examples of what I’ve used it for include :
-Reading SPSS output ( putting my exact output from SPSS in ai as a PDF or photo)
-To create the tables in my paper
-To tell me exactly step by step how to do regression analysis and independent T- tests as well as how to read them and what hypothesis they answer
-Finding peer reviewed
-Putting Citations into APA format
-Summarizing Articles
-Refining my Research Questions
-Using it to reword things in my paper to make it sound more academic
-Fixing comments from my professor
Some of the exact prompts I’ve used:
“Can you see the comments on this paper and if so can you fix them” from uploaded version of paper with teachers comments
“Use all attachments to examine my data ouputs and report on my hypotheses for my research paper This includes making tables for all hypotheses, as well as one for my t-tests. “
Now I am working on a paper to publish my data with my old professors. Problem is after using the AI system to help me figure out how to do the extra calculations with my survey data. Some of the output is wrong and I recoded binary and composite variables incorrectly. When my previous professor asks me exactly what I did . I can’t properly explain it to my professor because I was just following the steps the AI told me. Apart from that publishing this paper is supposed to help me when trying to apply to PHD/PSYD programs this Fall.
I think if I wrote everything down from the AI and used it as more of a learning tool I could be ok. But is me using it at all already a big sign that I shouldn’t be doing this kind of work? I’m unsure of what I should do next and if what I’m doing is unethical.