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The regulatory paradox

2001· article· en· W2791298308 on OpenAlexaboutno aff
Jack W. Hoffbuhr

Bibliographic record

VenueAmerican Water Works Association · 2001
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldEnvironmental Science
TopicEnvironmental and Social Impact Assessments
Canadian institutionsnot available
Fundersnot available
KeywordsGeneral partnershipAccreditationGovernment (linguistics)Compliance (psychology)Public administrationPolitical scienceGermanAccountingBusinessLawPsychologyGeography

Abstract

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In his column, AWWA Executive Director Jack Hoffbuhr discusses two different strategies being used by countries worldwide for regulating drinking water: the command‐and‐control system used by the United States and the United Kingdom; and, the guidance process used by Canada and Australia. He also discusses the system that Germany uses where compliance with voluntary criteria is determined by self‐evaluation and peer review. His personal bias is toward the German model of government water quality standards based on sound science and best‐of‐practice criteria developed and used by the water utilities through a credible accreditation system. He states that the QualServe and Partnership for Safe Water programs are excellent successful examples of this model in the United States.

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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)0.017
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.040
Version: metacan-v3-hybrid-931329e0061cValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesnone
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Not applicable · Consensus signal: none
GenreCandidate signal: Commentary · Consensus signal: Commentary
Teacher disagreement score0.022
Threshold uncertainty score0.089

Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0170.040
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0010.001
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0010.001
Bibliometrics0.0020.002
Science and technology studies0.0100.026
Scholarly communication0.0120.016
Open science0.0030.006
Research integrity0.0160.022
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0220.003

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 head0.004
GPT teacher head0.223
Teacher spread0.219 · 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.

The models applied no category: nothing in the taxonomy fit this work.
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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Published2001
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