<i>On Bullshit</i>, by Harry G. Frankfurt<i>On Truth</i>, by Harry G. Frankfurt
Why this work is in the frame
A frame that forgets how it found something cannot be audited. These are the routes that admitted this work.
Bibliographic record
Abstract
Click to increase image sizeClick to decrease image size Notes 1. Our own society seems quite prone to believing in several exotic "facts." According to a 2003 Gallup survey, 68% of Americans said they believe in the devil. Republicans (79%) and self-identified members of the religious right (83%) were the most likely to hold this belief. Roughly half of all Catholics and Protestants surveyed by Gallup in 1990 believed in ESP; nearly as many believed in psychic healing. Fifty-three percent of Catholics and 40% of Protestants professed belief in UFOs. A 1996 Newsweek poll found that 41% of people surveyed believed in astrology. Over a quarter of people surveyed by Gallup in 1994 professed belief in reincarnation and the possibility of communicating with the dead. Of course, we here in the United States may not meet Frankfurt's unstated criteria of health (see Kaminer, 1999 Kaminer, W. 1999. Sleeping with extra-terrestrials: The rise of irrationalism and perils of piety, New York: Pantheon Books. [Google Scholar]).
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Full frame distilled prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.
Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.001 | 0.001 |
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.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it