AEA 2025 More on “Why and how evaluators need to think in terms of foresight”

  • More information on hierarchical clustering
    • Using participatory methds: Hierarchical Card Sorting (HCS)
    • Using LLM AIs: They can be given essentially the same instructions as with HCS, but implemented with much greater speed. And alternative variants of instructions can also be tested very quickly. Results can be output as web based tree diagrams with different forms of annotations (tooltips, hypertext links)
  • How tree structures can be used as a planning and decision making framework
    • Claude AI on “the different ways in which tree structures have been used to aid planning and decision making, various kinds of organisations and settings”
    • Claude AI on “the similarities and differences between the use of tree structures as an aid to management decision making (called decision trees) and tree structures used in computer programmes”