Young Adults’ Constructions of Gender Conformity and Nonconformity: A Q Methodological Study
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Bibliographic record
Abstract
This study used Q methodology to investigate constructions of gender conformity and nonconformity in a sample of young adults. Fifty undergraduates sorted a series of statements along a continuum from ‘most agree’ to ‘most disagree’. Topics included gendered behaviour in children and adults, sexuality, intersex, transgender, and gender theories. Participants’ responses reflected four distinct perspectives. Interpretation of the perspectives was based on participants’ placements of the statements, and on interviews with selected participants. The perspectives contained different assumptions about gender and responses to gendered behaviour, particularly gender nonconformity. Yet participants representing each perspective endorsed statements that supported resistance to gender norms. Unidimensional gender scales focused on narrow ranges of gender-related behaviour may mask substantial differences in participants’ perspectives about gender.
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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 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.000 | 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 it