Code and Data for the Social Sciences: A Practitioner's Guide
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.
Bibliographic record
Abstract
ion Rules (A) Abstract to eliminate redundancy. (B) Abstract to improve clarity. (C) Otherwise, don’t abstract. We are concerned about spatial correlation in potato chip consumption. We want to test whether per capita potato chip consumption in a county is correlated with the average per capita potato chip consumption among other counties in the same state. First we must define the “leave-out” mean of per capita consumption for each county: egen total_pc_potato = total(pc_potato), by(state) egen total_obs = count(pc_potato), by(state) gen leaveout_state_pc_potato = (total_pc_potato pc_potato) / (total_obs 1) We can now test whether pc_potato is correlated with leaveout_state_pc_potato. If so, we may need to adjust how we compute the standard errors in our model. We perform our analysis and are comforted to find little evidence of spatial correlation. But what if we are using the wrong level of aggregation? Maybe spatial correlation will show up at the level of the metropolitan area. Let’s copy and paste the code above and then adapt it to use metropolitan area instead of state as the level of aggregation:
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Full frame distilled prediction
Teacher imitationNot 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.
Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.001 | 0.002 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
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.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it