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Record W2605777400 · doi:10.23907/2012.019

Intent in Manner Determination

2012· article· en· W2605777400 on OpenAlex

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Bibliographic record

VenueAcademic Forensic Pathology · 2012
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldMedicine
TopicAutopsy Techniques and Outcomes
Canadian institutionsOffice of the Chief Medical Examiner
Fundersnot available
KeywordsVolition (linguistics)Variation (astronomy)CertaintyTask (project management)Medical practicePsychologyMedical examinerFunction (biology)Association (psychology)MedicineSocial psychologyFamily medicineHuman factors and ergonomicsMedical emergencyPoison controlEpistemologyEngineering

Abstract

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Manner of death determination is a basic and traditional task for medical examiners. Though it has a history spanning centuries, many facets of manner determination continue to be problematic. Few issues are more vexing than the difficulties in determining intent. A survey of members of the National Association of Medical Examiners was performed to determine current practice and attitudes about the use of intent in manner determination. There were 168 completed responses, representing an approximately 20% response rate. The results reveal significant variation. While the concept of “volition” as distinct from “intent” has been common for over a decade, less than 60% of respondents made the distinction in their practice. There was also wide variation in the degree of certainty practitioners noted they used when determining manner with peaks at between 51-60% and 95-99%. Some of this represents real uncertainty in manner determination and some represents cultural and regional differences in practice. The variation and uncertainty in these determinations has led some to suggest that this role be abandoned. However, the statistical, policy, and cultural need for these determinations dictate that the function will be performed even if abandoned by the medical examiner community. Medical examiners are uniquely positioned and trained to fill this need, and should continue to do so.

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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)0.000
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.000
Version: codex-gemma-dda1882f352aValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesnone
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Observational · Consensus signal: Observational
GenreCandidate signal: Empirical · Consensus signal: Empirical
Teacher disagreement score0.122
Threshold uncertainty score0.307

Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0000.000
Bibliometrics0.0000.000
Science and technology studies0.0000.000
Scholarly communication0.0000.000
Open science0.0000.000
Research integrity0.0000.000
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 head0.032
GPT teacher head0.337
Teacher spread0.305 · 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