A day in the life of a mental performance practitioner working in the Canadian Olympic and paralympic sport institute network (copsin)
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Abstract
COPSIN is a key contributor to Canada's world leading Olympic and Paralympic podium performances. It provides a range of added-value benefits to the sports worked with by providing expert leadership, service provision, and programs informed by cutting edge innovation and research. In this environment mental performance practitioners work to assist athletes and coaches within a sport science team, referred to as integrated support team (IST). This presentation will address the context of high performance sport where outcomes are fully performance driven, and funding, both for the athletes and IST, are based on results and podium potential. In this context, the mental performance practitioner focuses on 4 main domains of practice. These include: (1) the psychological climate and culture of both the athlete(s)' environment and in the larger context of the national sport organization; (2) athlete performance issues, both at the individual and team level, and including performance both in the daily training environment and at competition; (3) athlete lifestyle wellness and mental health, which may include collaboration with other health and wellness experts such as registered dieticians, psychologists, and physicians, and; (4) leadership and organizational management where the practitioner may play more of a leadership role in the IST and/or help improve the functioning of the IST or sport organization. This presentation will inform about the ways in which the mental performance practitioner service delivery is nuanced by the 'athlete-centred, coach-driven, IST supported' micro-politics underpinning service delivery.
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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 | 0.002 | 0.004 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.021 | 0.005 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.007 | 0.003 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.007 |
| Research integrity | 0.005 | 0.008 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.045 | 0.010 |
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".