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Record W112474682

Education Notes: Outreach: Why You Should Do It, and How to Succeed

2002· article· en· W112474682 on OpenAlexvenueno aff
John R. Percy

Bibliographic record

VenueJournal of the Royal Astronomical Society of Canada · 2002
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldSocial Sciences
TopicClimate Change Communication and Perception
Canadian institutionsnot available
Fundersnot available
KeywordsOutreachHobbyGovernment (linguistics)Public relationsPublic educationIsolation (microbiology)Political scienceSociologyPublic administrationLaw
DOInot available

Abstract

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Astronomers can learn and pursue their profession or hobby in isolation. They can also share it with others through education and outreach. The terms Education and Outreach are sometimes used interchangeably, or are used to refer to formal and informal education, or to school and public education, respectively. The two are related: science education in the schools is strongly affected by the many channels for public education - notably the mass media; public understanding and appreciation of science begins in school. Hereafter, I will use the term Education and Public Outreach (initialism E/PO ), which is widely used in the US where there is lots of money from government and private sources to support it.

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How this classification was reachedexpand

Full frame machine prediction

Teacher imitation

Not calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.003
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.011
Version: metacan-v3-hybrid-931329e0061cValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesnone
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Not applicable · Consensus signal: Not applicable
GenreCandidate signal: Commentary · Consensus signal: Commentary
Teacher disagreement score0.061
Threshold uncertainty score0.204

Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0030.011
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0010.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0000.000
Bibliometrics0.0010.001
Science and technology studies0.0060.004
Scholarly communication0.0050.007
Open science0.0010.003
Research integrity0.0070.010
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0610.024

Machine scores (provisional)

The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.

Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.

Opus teacher head0.172
GPT teacher head0.335
Teacher spread0.163 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it

Classification

machine, unvalidated

Machine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.

The models applied no category: nothing in the taxonomy fit this work.
Study designNot applicable
Domainnot available
GenreCommentary

How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".

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