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Record W1909754911 · doi:10.29173/cmplct8813

Response to Stanley: Expanding Complexity: A Meditation

2009· article· en· W1909754911 on OpenAlexvenueno aff
John St. Julien

Bibliographic record

VenueComplicity An International Journal of Complexity and Education · 2009
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldComputer Science
TopicChaos, Complexity, and Education
Canadian institutionsnot available
Fundersnot available
KeywordsAnalogyMeditationInterpretation (philosophy)EpistemologyReading (process)Identity (music)SociologyCognitive sciencePsychologyComputer scienceAestheticsPhilosophyLinguistics

Abstract

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This response offers a meditation on education’s understanding of complexity theories. It explores a way of relating education and complexity theories that is occasioned by a reading of Darren Stanley’s “Complex Responsive Processes: An Alternative Interpretation of Knowledge, Knowing, and Understanding.” In that article Stanley lays out the characteristics of “Complex Responsive Processes” (CRP) as a framework for understanding identity formation and, as such, as a useful analogy for educators interested in “human knowledge and knowing.” This response will suggest that what Dr. Stanley has begun to uncover is more powerful than analogy; it is, in fact, a back door to reconsidering a powerful and still living strand of thought on education in light of the burgeoning power of complex explanations of our shared world.

Fetched live from OpenAlex and de-inverted. Abstracts are not stored in this database: the inverted indexes are 8.6 GB of the frame’s 9.3 GB of text, and the host has 13 GB free.

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)0.004
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.021
Version: metacan-v3-hybrid-931329e0061cValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesnone
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Theoretical or conceptual · Consensus signal: none
GenreCandidate signal: Commentary · Consensus signal: Commentary
Teacher disagreement score0.013
Threshold uncertainty score0.024

Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0040.021
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0010.001
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0010.001
Bibliometrics0.0010.000
Science and technology studies0.0060.005
Scholarly communication0.0040.007
Open science0.0020.004
Research integrity0.0130.044
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0070.003

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 head0.100
GPT teacher head0.383
Teacher spread0.284 · 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 designTheoretical or conceptual
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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