Conceptualizing political orientation in Canadian political candidates: A tale of two (correlated) dimensions.
Bibliographic record
Abstract
L'orientation politique est souvent operationnalisee comme un continuum unidimensionnel gauche-droite. Cependant, des recherches suggerent que cette conceptualisation pourrait etre trop simpliste. La presente etude visait a examiner la structure de l'orientation politique aupres d'un echantillon de 190 politiciens qui etaient candidats aux elections federales canadiennes de 2006. Les participants ont complete des mesures d'attitudes envers differentes questions politiques (questions de conservatisme social, questions de competition economique), croyances ideologiques (autoritarisme de droite, orientation a dominance sociale) et valeurs abstraites (conservation, autopromotion) comme indicateurs d'orientation politique. Des analyses factorielles confirma-toires ont demontre que la structure de l'orientation politique etait le mieux expliquee par deux dimensions moderement correlees: gauche-droite sociale et gauche-droite economique. Les differences entre les partis politiques en ce qui a trait aux indicateurs d'orientation politique sont aussi discutees.
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame machine prediction
Teacher imitationNot 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.
Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.005 | 0.010 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.005 | 0.007 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.006 | 0.011 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.006 | 0.002 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.004 |
| Research integrity | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.002 | 0.000 |
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 itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.
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".