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Ask your first question

Semilattice is a computational research platform which lets you predict how specific populations of people would answer questions. Follow the steps below to ask your first question.

1

Create your account

Sign up and verify your email to log in to the dashboard.

2

Choose which population to ask

Semilattice simulates how specific populations of people answer questions, so you first need to decide who to ask.

Choose from a range of ready-to-use populations

Choose from a range of ready-to-use public populations or schedule a call to talk about custom populations for your audiences.

3

Write your question

Semilattice currently supports single option multiple-choice questions. You can ask about anything the population may have talked about online before the population’s knowledge cutoff. For the public populations, the knowledge cutoff is October 2023.

Ask any single option multiple-choice question

4

Click Predict

When you click Predict, Semilattice simulates the population answering your question thousands of times. This maximises accuracy but can take up to 45 seconds.

Semilattice simulates thousands of answers for accuracy

5

Interpret the results

A bar chart will display the results once the prediction is complete. There will be one bar for each of the question’s answer options. The width of each bar represents the percentage of the population who were predicted to choose that answer option.

Results are generated in less than 45 seconds

The error bars show the estimated, potential error for each answer option based on the population’s evaluation scores.

Results are predictions and their accuracy can only be estimated.

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Next steps

Congratulations, you’ve asked your first question! Now you’re ready to dive into Populations.

Populations

Populations model specific groups of people

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Ask your first question

Semilattice is a computational research platform which lets you predict how specific populations of people would answer questions. Follow the steps below to ask your first question.

1

Create your account

Sign up and verify your email to log in to the dashboard.

2

Choose which population to ask

Semilattice simulates how specific populations of people answer questions, so you first need to decide who to ask.

Choose from a range of ready-to-use populations

Choose from a range of ready-to-use public populations or schedule a call to talk about custom populations for your audiences.

3

Write your question

Semilattice currently supports single option multiple-choice questions. You can ask about anything the population may have talked about online before the population’s knowledge cutoff. For the public populations, the knowledge cutoff is October 2023.

Ask any single option multiple-choice question

4

Click Predict

When you click Predict, Semilattice simulates the population answering your question thousands of times. This maximises accuracy but can take up to 45 seconds.

Semilattice simulates thousands of answers for accuracy

5

Interpret the results

A bar chart will display the results once the prediction is complete. There will be one bar for each of the question’s answer options. The width of each bar represents the percentage of the population who were predicted to choose that answer option.

Results are generated in less than 45 seconds

The error bars show the estimated, potential error for each answer option based on the population’s evaluation scores.

Results are predictions and their accuracy can only be estimated.

​
Next steps

Congratulations, you’ve asked your first question! Now you’re ready to dive into Populations.

Populations

Populations model specific groups of people