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Record W2006730206 · doi:10.1177/00113921030515006

When Methods Make a Difference

2003· article· en· W2006730206 on OpenAlex
Blair Wheaton

Why this work is in the frame

A frame that forgets how it found something cannot be audited. These are the routes that admitted this work.

affAt least one author lists a Canadian institution in the pinned OpenAlex snapshot.

Bibliographic record

VenueCurrent Sociology · 2003
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldSocial Sciences
TopicUrban, Neighborhood, and Segregation Studies
Canadian institutionsUniversity of Toronto
Fundersnot available
KeywordsInterdependenceContext (archaeology)Range (aeronautics)Set (abstract data type)Computer scienceEpistemologySociologyLimitingCover (algebra)Data scienceManagement scienceSocial scienceEconomics

Abstract

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The fundamental point of this article is that methods change what we are able to see. Using a series of examples, the article suggests that substantive literatures are regularly set off course by the limitations built into widely used methodological frameworks to analyse data. In each example, simpler and/or better known methods are compared to methods which either incorporate a broader range of possible influences or clarify the issue at hand, and consequently essential findings change. These findings suggest either that the inertial state of findings in research literatures could be redefined or redirected by the application of methods which take into account more clearly the effects of time and place, or that given theories may be transformed by methods which resolve conflicting or limiting features of theoretical debate. Examples cover a wide range of issues, from longitudinal vs cross-sectional data, to the specification of models to replace equations, to the influence of social context on individual behaviour, to the importance of time in the modelling of events, to the nuances of capturing the complexity behind interdependent processes over the life course.

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Full frame distilled prediction

Teacher imitation

Not 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.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.001
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.001
Version: codex-gemma-dda1882f352aValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesnone
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Theoretical or conceptual · Consensus signal: none
GenreCandidate signal: Empirical · Consensus signal: none
Teacher disagreement score0.781
Threshold uncertainty score0.677

Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0010.001
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0000.000
Bibliometrics0.0000.000
Science and technology studies0.0010.001
Scholarly communication0.0000.000
Open science0.0000.000
Research integrity0.0000.000
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0010.000

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.

Opus teacher head0.146
GPT teacher head0.450
Teacher spread0.305 · 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