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Record W1997707832 · doi:10.1007/s12129-003-1021-y

Political correctness as an academic discipline

2003· article· en· W1997707832 on OpenAlexaff
Heinz-Joachim Klatt

Bibliographic record

VenueAcademic Questions · 2003
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldSocial Sciences
TopicEducational and Social Studies
Canadian institutionsWestern University
Fundersnot available
KeywordsPolitical correctnessPhilosophy of educationHigher educationPoliticsDisciplineSociologyPedagogyPolitical scienceSocial scienceLaw

Abstract

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For the last two years I have taught an e ight -month senior u n d e r g r a d u a t e course on political correctness in the psychoiog-y d e p a r t m e n t at my college titled PSY 3831:,: Psvcholocy and Ideology--the Study of Political Correctness. The fact that this course became possible, in the cu r r en t a tmosphere of passionate dew)tion to the cause of ideological conformi ty and censorship, is due to a nttnlher of part icular events and personalities without which the course would never have been approved. I would like to begin my expose, in a few broad strokes, by out l in ing the pregnancy stage of the course that tinally resuhed in its birth. Thereaf ter , I will describe its infancy and speculate about later deve lopmenta l stages. My hope is that this course, which is now being taught in a psychology depa r tmen t , will soon be of fered by many o the r depa r tmen t s in the country. It is my t in ' ther hope that in the not-too-distant t'uttare it will be taught only as a history course and will then be cen te red on a topic that will have been utterly defea ted and relegated to the follies of the embarrass ing past.

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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)0.005
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.009
Version: metacan-v3-hybrid-931329e0061cValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesScience and technology studies
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Theoretical or conceptual · Consensus signal: Theoretical or conceptual
GenreCandidate signal: Empirical · Consensus signal: none
Teacher disagreement score0.989
Threshold uncertainty score0.047

Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0050.009
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0000.000
Bibliometrics0.0010.001
Science and technology studies0.0110.024
Scholarly communication0.0130.005
Open science0.0010.006
Research integrity0.0020.006
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0090.001

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 head0.056
GPT teacher head0.449
Teacher spread0.393 · 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.

Study designTheoretical or conceptual
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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Published2003
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