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Record W2165529527 · doi:10.1177/1049732305285482

The Politics of Evidence

2006· article· en· W2165529527 on OpenAlexaff
Janice M. Morse

Bibliographic record

VenueQualitative Health Research · 2006
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldHealth Professions
TopicHealthcare cost, quality, practices
Canadian institutionsUniversity of Alberta
Fundersnot available
KeywordsCognitive reframingPoliticsQualitative researchSociologyPoint (geometry)Medical researchPublic relationsPsychologyEpistemologyPolitical scienceSocial psychologyMedicineSocial scienceLaw

Abstract

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The evidence-based movement has influenced medical research to the point that the agendas and methods of qualitative inquiry are often excluded from resources of medical granting agencies. Yet, its narrow definition of what constitutes evidence and its myopic vision about health must be challenged. In this article, the author argues that qualitative research does contribute to a reduction in morbidity and mortality without the cost in dollars and lives that are necessarily incurred in evidence-based inquiry. She asserts that we must reframe our definition of evidence to meet this new ethic of inquiry--which she calls the ultimate ethic--as a way of conducting research.

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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)0.424
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.506
Version: metacan-v3-hybrid-931329e0061cValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesMetaresearch, Science and technology studies
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Qualitative · Consensus signal: none
GenreCandidate signal: Empirical · Consensus signal: none
Teacher disagreement score0.986
Threshold uncertainty score0.711

Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.4240.506
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0020.003
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0070.002
Bibliometrics0.0110.007
Science and technology studies0.0140.145
Scholarly communication0.0410.055
Open science0.0090.024
Research integrity0.0400.069
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0060.003

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 head0.981
GPT teacher head0.809
Teacher spread0.172 · 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 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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Citations156
Published2006
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