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Jordan Hale
https://jordanhale.example | [ASK JORDAN: email] | [ASK JORDAN: phone] | [ASK JORDAN: city and state]

Education

PhD, Organizational Behavior, Ridgeview University, 2016
- Dissertation on how the order in which teams hear dissenting views affects whether the dissent changes the decision.

BA, Psychology, Carrow College, 2010

Skills

Python, R, SQL, experimental design, survey design and validation, multilevel models, inter-rater reliability, language-model evaluation, prompt and pipeline engineering for research use.

Experience

Independent Researcher
Self-funded independent research | [ASK JORDAN: month] 2024 to present
- Built Relay, a testbed for studying how information changes as it passes through chains and networks of language-model agents. The wiring between agents, the model at each position, and what an agent may pass on are set in code. Every message is stored with its lineage, so any final message can be traced to its source.
- Validated the language-model judges that label message changes against 300 messages hand-labeled with one research assistant. The judges agreed well on whether facts were dropped and poorly on whether qualifications (hedges and caveats) were dropped.
- Caught a configuration error before the first full run. The route through which agents reached their models was adding hidden context to every agent call, which would have contaminated every condition.
- Relay has been used only with language-model agents, not with people.
- Pricing-experiment rehearsal, [ASK JORDAN: month] 2025. Used language-model agents as simulated shoppers to check whether a tiered-pricing design, sample size, and analysis plan would detect a planted effect before a client ran the experiment. Simulation only. It does not estimate how real shoppers respond.

Research Lead, Measurement
Kestrel Media (streaming service) | [ASK JORDAN: month] 2022 to [ASK JORDAN: month] 2024
- Found that the main item in the viewer-satisfaction survey tracked recent outages more than satisfaction with the catalog. Rebuilt the measure in 2023 and validated it against later cancellation.
- Owned the measurement plan for experiments run by the product teams.
- Led a team of three researchers (direct reports).

Senior Research Scientist
Parcel (consumer delivery app) | [ASK JORDAN: month] 2018 to [ASK JORDAN: month] 2022
- Designed and analyzed product experiments on delivery-time estimates and tipping prompts.
- Built the company's first holdout process for long-running experiments.

Postdoctoral Fellow
Ridgeview University Decision Lab | [ASK JORDAN: month] 2016 to [ASK JORDAN: month] 2018
- Ran laboratory experiments on group decisions with student participants.
- Managed the lab's participant pool.

Talks

- Invited talk. "When can a language-model judge be trusted?" Measurement in AI Workshop, Varrow University, May 2025.
- Paper presentation. "Late dissent." Academy of Management annual meeting, 2019. Competitively selected paper session.

Publications and working papers

- Hale, J. (2026). Message drift in chains of language-model agents. Under review at Management Science (first round, submitted July 2026).
- Hale, J. (2025). Rehearsing experiments with simulated participants. Working paper, posted on jordanhale.example.
- Ibarra, K., Chen, S., Hale, J., and Novak, P. (2021). Measuring psychological safety from meeting transcripts. Journal of Applied Psychology. Published. Third of four authors. Contributed the measurement model and robustness analyses.
- Hale, J., and Moreno, L. (2019). Hearing dissent late: Order effects in team decisions. Organization Science. Published. First author.