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Record W2366192910 · doi:10.2310/jim.0b013e3181a0a24e

The Academic Paradigm is the Problem

2009· article· en· W2366192910 on OpenAlexaboutno aff
Matthew A. Movsesian

Bibliographic record

VenueJournal of Investigative Medicine · 2009
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldMedicine
TopicCardiovascular and exercise physiology
Canadian institutionsnot available
Fundersnot available
KeywordsBasketballIncentiveArgument (complex analysis)Plan (archaeology)Public relationsAdversaryPsychologyPolitical scienceOperations researchComputer scienceMedicineEconomicsEngineeringHistory

Abstract

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The following is adapted from a talk given by the author, a former member of the National Council of the American Federation for Medical Research, at the Heart Failure Society of America Annual Scientific Meeting, Toronto, Ontario, Canada, on September 23, 2008. The issue I would like to address has to do with what many of us perceive to be a slow progress in research leading to the development of new therapeutic agents for heart failure. I would argue that our academic paradigm, with its focus on assessing the individual accomplishments of faculty members rather than on facilitating progress by the research community as a whole, is an impediment to progress. I would like to begin my argument using, as an allegorical example, a story about a basketball team. The owner of a basketball team wanted to devise an incentive plan to improve his team's performance. He reasoned that team performance was the sum of the performances of the individual players, and that the key, therefore, was to maximize the productivity of each individual. He reasoned further that, because basketball games are won by scoring more points than one's opponent, the appropriate incentive plan would be one in which each player would be paid in direct proportion to the number of points he scored. The plan was put into practice. As predicted, players became proficient at the skills they needed to score points. Shooting was central, and players put a huge amount of effort into this particular aspect of the game. But one had to have the ball and get open before one could shoot, the players also worked on rebounding, stealing the ball, and ball handling. Those with the greatest combination of talent and personal motivation became the highest scorers and were the most highly rewarded. Most people looked …

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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)0.002
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.001
Version: codex-gemma-dda1882f352aValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesnone
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Not applicable · Consensus signal: none
GenreCandidate signal: Empirical · Consensus signal: none
Teacher disagreement score0.661
Threshold uncertainty score0.535

Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0020.001
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0010.000
Bibliometrics0.0000.000
Science and technology studies0.0000.001
Scholarly communication0.0000.000
Open science0.0000.000
Research integrity0.0000.001
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0000.000

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 head0.042
GPT teacher head0.309
Teacher spread0.267 · 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 teacher head, not a consensus.

The models applied no category: nothing in the taxonomy fit this work.
Study designNot applicable
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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