Beliefs of students talented in academics, music, and dance concerning the heritability of human abilities in these fields
Bibliographic record
Abstract
This study assessed the heritability beliefs of talented students concerning the heritability of human abilities, more specifically the extent to which these talented laypersons endorsed the strong environmentalist ideology promoted in the social sciences and the media. Three groups of talented students (academics, music, dance) assessed the heritability of three sets of human abilities (cognitive, musical, physical), as well as motivational characteristics, for a total of 22 items. Six formal hypotheses were formulated; four of them were confirmed. The results showed that a majority of the respondents held middle‐of‐the‐road positions, recognizing a significant causal role for both nature and nurture. However, the very large standard deviations indicated the presence of substantial numbers of students toward both extremes of the heredity‐environment continuum. Explanations for such diversity in beliefs remain elusive in the literature. Significant differences in degree of perceived heritability were observed between ability domains as well as within each of them. A series of follow‐up studies are proposed.
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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 | 0.001 | 0.004 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.001 | 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".