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Record W2489856383 · doi:10.1057/9780230244399_11

The Political Economy of Global Health Research

2009· book-chapter· en· W2489856383 on OpenAlexaffabout
Sandra J. MacLean, David R. MacLean

Bibliographic record

VenuePalgrave Macmillan UK eBooks · 2009
Typebook-chapter
Languageen
FieldBiochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology
TopicBRCA gene mutations in cancer
Canadian institutionsSimon Fraser University
Fundersnot available
KeywordsNewspaperBreast cancerGlobePoliticsMeaning (existential)HazardPolitical scienceFront pageCancerMedicineGenealogyHistoryMedia studiesBiologySociologyInternal medicinePsychologyLaw

Abstract

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A recent article on the front page of our local newspaper carried the arresting title, ‘ “Landmark Breakthrough” in Breast Cancer Research’ (Vancouver Sun , 2007, p. 1). The article, which described research findings regarding gene mutations that lead to breast cancer, proclaimed that the discovery could, in the future, have major positive implications for the prevention and treatment of breast cancer. The following day, the Globe and Mail (2007, p. L.4), a national daily newspaper, carried an article entitled, ‘New Cancer Genes are Low-risk’. This article emphasized that these gene mutations were actually ‘common’ and ‘relatively low-hazard’, meaning that ‘women who have them run a comparatively small risk of developing cancer’. Because the genes are so common and low-risk, the article concluded, there may not be any benefits achieved by screening individuals. This article was published on the fourth page of the ‘Life’ section of the newspaper. These keywords were added by machine and not by the authors. This process is experimental and the keywords may be updated as the learning algorithm improves.

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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)0.016
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.024
Version: metacan-v3-hybrid-931329e0061cValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesScience and technology studies
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Not applicable · Consensus signal: none
GenreCandidate signal: Other · Consensus signal: none
Teacher disagreement score0.995
Threshold uncertainty score0.087

Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0160.024
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0010.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0010.000
Bibliometrics0.0020.003
Science and technology studies0.0050.023
Scholarly communication0.0150.011
Open science0.0010.009
Research integrity0.0080.010
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0220.004

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 head0.351
Teacher spread0.309 · 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
GenreOther

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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Citations2
Published2009
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