Harvard 1926–1932: Early Research and Associates
Bibliographic record
Abstract
Lawrence J. Henderson, a Harvard biologist, was another influential man who supported Elton Mayo. In 1926–1927 Mayo worked with Harold D. Lasswell, who was twenty-two, on his personal problems, interviewing skills, and aspects of politics and psychoanalysis, which Lasswell would later make central to his career. Mayo was considering an offer to establish experimental psychology at McGill University, but when Wallace Brett Donham outlined his plans Mayo believed the Harvard research setting would be superior. He found the plan deficient because top managers were autocratic and unbending, middle and first-line supervisors felt the plan had diminished their influence, and employee representatives and associates used the plan to unionize the work force and promote socialism. Mayo carried his work beyond the conflict and squabbling within the organization of the mines and steel works to the sociological problems in the community. He was appalled by the illiteracy, overcrowding, ill health, and sexual promiscuity in Pueblo’s Mexican community.
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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 | 0.001 | 0.002 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.003 | 0.004 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.006 | 0.006 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.005 | 0.005 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.002 |
| Research integrity | 0.002 | 0.002 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.043 | 0.013 |
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".