Bibliographic record
Abstract
Psychology is about real human beings. Each of the perspectives in this book can be judged by how well it enables us to understand ourselves and other individuals. As an exercise for myself, I began decades ago to try out each of the seven perspectives as a framework for understanding the single most opaque person that I have known, my Aunt Lena. I did not know Lena as a psychologist knows a client, but within the intimate network of my family from my earliest childhood until her death in the year 2000, at which point this multi-perspective case study was already well under way. Born in 1901, my Aunt Lena’s life spanned the twentieth century. She eventually died at age ninety-nine, having managed until a decade before to dress stylishly, to apply her makeup artfully, and to be amusing and convivial – as long as she had a few drinks. Aunt Lena was married for nearly fifty years to a successful American mining executive, who the family called “Charlie.” When he died, in 1970, he left her a small but stylish home in Arizona, a summer home on a tiny island off New England, and enough money for Lena to live in modest comfort indefinitely, without depleting her capital. Their marriage was a study in devotion and leisure. They filled albums with beautifully arranged photographs of themselves as tourists in the most famous places in Europe and Asia in the years between World War I and World War II. Aunt Lena never worked, rarely cooked, and had no children. She was a beautiful, loyal companion and ornament for an ambitious man. At parties with our large, extended family she was beautiful, charming, and innocently flirtatious. She was never, however, a brilliant conversationalist. Despite years of living abroad, Lena appeared to know almost nothing about politics, business, science, or the arts. Her occasional murky oil paintings were objects of extravagant praise within the family, but otherwise uninterpretable. As she socialized, her husband looked on: reserved, respected, private. He earned the money and made sure it was spent in a reasonably careful way.
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame machine prediction
Teacher imitationNot 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.
Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.001 | 0.002 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.008 | 0.013 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.005 | 0.006 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.004 |
| Research integrity | 0.001 | 0.005 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.012 | 0.003 |
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.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.
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".