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Record W2162638003 · doi:10.1177/1049732303253542

What is Becoming of Ethnography?

2003· article· en· W2162638003 on OpenAlexaff
Pamela J. Brink, Nancy Edgecombe

Bibliographic record

VenueQualitative Health Research · 2003
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldSocial Sciences
TopicQualitative Research Methods and Ethics
Canadian institutionsUniversity of Alberta
Fundersnot available
KeywordsEthnographySociologyPsychologyAnthropology

Abstract

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A n interesting phenomenon has begun to emerge in health care, one that wethink needs to be examined a little more closely. It’s a phenomenon that we refer to as the bastardization of research designs. The phenomenon is seen most often in qualitative designs. Some refer to the process as the development or improvement of research designs; others see it as poor science. The major concern here is with the use of a research design developed by anthropology and borrowed by health care disciplines, called ethnography. All research designs were developed through trial and error to arrive at answers (dependable answers that reflected truth or fact) to common questions being asked by scientists. The earliest of the designs, the one with the longest his-tory, is the experimental design. At its heart is the basic concept of “experimen-tation, ” or changing something to see what will happen, in which a variable is selected to be “manipulated ” or changed. If the variable is not manipulated or changed, we do not have an experimental design. It is as simple as that. All research designs have a part of the design and a research process that is the signature to the design. Over time, there have been variations to the design, with

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How this classification was reachedexpand

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)0.223
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.023
Version: codex-gemma-dda1882f352aValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesMetaresearch, Science and technology studies
Consensus categoriesMetaresearch, Science and technology studies
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Qualitative · Consensus signal: Qualitative
GenreCandidate signal: Empirical · Consensus signal: none
Teacher disagreement score0.588
Threshold uncertainty score0.999

Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.2230.023
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0000.000
Bibliometrics0.0010.003
Science and technology studies0.0020.005
Scholarly communication0.0000.001
Open science0.0000.000
Research integrity0.0000.001
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 head0.882
GPT teacher head0.774
Teacher spread0.108 · 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; both teacher heads agree on what is shown here.

Study designQualitative
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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