The April, 2026 paper, published in Technology, Mind, and Behavior, which is published by the American Psychological Association (APA), purported to describe the results of a survey of 1,923 adults recruited online to perform AI-assisted tasks. Experts in the field began flagging issues with the paper’s data on PubPeer shortly after it was published. Their concerns included inconsistencies in graphs and results, study design, “erroneous” references and a lack of ethics approval.

According to the Aug. 31, 2026, retraction notice, the journal requested data as part of its investigation, and the author of the paper, Sarah Baldeo, and the approving research ethics body, ID Quotient Advisory Group, declined. According to the notice, Baldeo and ID Quotient said “the requested transfer of both anonymized participant-level materials and analytic syntax was not authorized under the participant-consent and Canadian [Research Ethics Board] framework governing the study either publicly or under a data-use agreement.”

Source https://retractionwatch.com/2026/09/14/american-psychological-association-technology-mind-behavior-sarah-baldeo-id-quotient/

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