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Record W2330881422 · doi:10.1021/cen-v078n033.p044

CHEMISTS REACH OUT TO CANADIAN PUBLIC

2000· article· en· W2330881422 on OpenAlexaboutno aff
STEPHEN STINSON

Bibliographic record

VenueChemical & Engineering News · 2000
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldPsychology
TopicScience Education and Perceptions
Canadian institutionsnot available
Fundersnot available
KeywordsEngineeringPolitical scienceEngineering physics

Abstract

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For 20 years, three chemistry professors in Canada have worked to inform the public about the roles of chemistry in everyday life. Now their prolific and varied efforts have finally found a home. The Office of Chemistry & Society (OCS) at McGill University, Montreal, inaugurated not quite a year ago, is channeling the professors' output of continuing education courses, public lectures and demonstrations, newspaper columns, books, and radio and television programs to the Canadian public. The multifaceted outreach program is the work of David N. Harpp, chemistry department chair at McGill; Joseph A. Schwarcz, director of OCS and chemistry professor at McGill; and Ariel E. Fenster, chemistry professor at Vanier College in nearby St. Laurent, Quebec, who is an adjunct professor at McGill and OCS director of communications. In addition to producing multimedia educational materials, they encourage letters and phone calls from the public about chemical concerns. 'There are a lot of questions about genetically ...

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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)0.003
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.010
Version: metacan-v3-hybrid-931329e0061cValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesInsufficient payload (model declined to judge)
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Not applicable · Consensus signal: Not applicable
GenreCandidate signal: Commentary · Consensus signal: none
Teacher disagreement score0.730
Threshold uncertainty score0.886

Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0030.010
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0020.001
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0010.001
Bibliometrics0.0040.006
Science and technology studies0.0110.002
Scholarly communication0.0080.004
Open science0.0030.007
Research integrity0.0060.003
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.7300.502

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 head0.043
GPT teacher head0.318
Teacher spread0.275 · 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 designNot applicable
Domainnot available
GenreCommentary

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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