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The measurement of racial discrimination: the policy use of statistics

2005· article· en· W1978329537 on OpenAlexaboutno aff
Patrick Simon

Bibliographic record

VenueInternational Social Science Journal · 2005
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldSocial Sciences
TopicMigration, Refugees, and Integration
Canadian institutionsnot available
Fundersnot available
KeywordsMulticulturalismContext (archaeology)PoliticsRacismAffirmative actionEuropean unionData collectionPolitical scienceIdentity (music)Action (physics)SociologyPublic administrationLawSocial scienceEconomicsGeographyInternational trade

Abstract

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Most ‘multicultural societies’ in the world attempt to act against racial discrimination and some, admittedly less numerous, have adopted pro‐active equality policies based on statistical monitoring. Intensive use of statistics is a requirement for action against indirect discrimination, a legal concept imported into European Union countries since 2000. However, design and collection of statistical data providing information on racial discrimination calls for the establishment of a technical apparatus that raises issues of political strategy and action methodology. Using the results of a comparative study of the statistics used in anti‐discrimination policy in the USA, the UK, Canada, and Australia, this analysis compares the various categories and modes of collection by setting them in context in order to reveal the compromises made between the legal and political imperatives of the struggle against discrimination and the aim of identity recognition within the multicultural project.

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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)0.143
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.308
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: none
GenreCandidate signal: Empirical · Consensus signal: none
Teacher disagreement score0.143
Threshold uncertainty score0.756

Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.1430.308
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0010.001
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0020.001
Bibliometrics0.0110.018
Science and technology studies0.0060.046
Scholarly communication0.0160.021
Open science0.0030.008
Research integrity0.0050.007
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0020.001

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.

Opus teacher head0.060
GPT teacher head0.377
Teacher spread0.318 · 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
GenreEmpirical

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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Published2005
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