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Record W2921706419 · doi:10.1186/s40814-019-0411-z

Pilot study of a repeated random sampling method for surveys focusing on date-specific differences in alcohol consumption among university students

2019· article· en· W2921706419 on OpenAlexafffund
John Cunningham, Amber M. Anthenien, Clayton Neighbors

Bibliographic record

VenuePilot and Feasibility Studies · 2019
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldSocial Sciences
TopicSurvey Methodology and Nonresponse
Canadian institutionsUniversity of TorontoCentre for Addiction and Mental Health
FundersCanada Research ChairsUniversity of Queensland
KeywordsAlcohol consumptionPsychologySampling (signal processing)Consumption (sociology)AlcoholStatisticsEnvironmental healthSociologyComputer scienceMathematicsMedicineChemistrySocial science

Abstract

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BACKGROUND: This paper proposes and pilots a repeated random sampling method to promote the likelihood of collecting drinking data equally representative of the behavior of university students at all times through the academic year. METHODS: From October, 2016, to May, 2017, random samples of 1350 students were selected from the 39,155 undergraduate students enrolled in the fall semester at University of Houston. These students were sent an email inviting them to complete an online survey (entered into a weekly draw for a $50 gift certificate if responded). RESULTS: The response rate was low (6%). Among participants who reported drinking in the last week, there was a variation as expected in the amount of drinking observed depending on the time of year (e.g., during exams). CONCLUSIONS: While the sampling methods show promise, procedures would need to be implemented to substantially increase response rates before the proposed methods could be seen as an advantage over existing survey sampling procedures.

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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)0.090
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.085
Version: metacan-v3-hybrid-931329e0061cValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesnone
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Observational · Consensus signal: none
GenreCandidate signal: Empirical · Consensus signal: Empirical
Teacher disagreement score0.090
Threshold uncertainty score0.475

Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0900.085
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0010.001
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0010.001
Bibliometrics0.0010.001
Science and technology studies0.0020.001
Scholarly communication0.0010.001
Open science0.0020.001
Research integrity0.0010.001
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0030.001

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 head0.714
GPT teacher head0.525
Teacher spread0.189 · 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 designObservational
Domainnot available
GenreEmpirical

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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