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Scientific Uncertainty in Social Debates Around Risk

2008· other· en· W2978056225 on OpenAlexaff
S. Michelle Driedger

Bibliographic record

VenueEncyclopedia of Quantitative Risk Analysis and Assessment · 2008
Typeother
Languageen
FieldSocial Sciences
TopicRisk Perception and Management
Canadian institutionsUniversity of Manitoba
Fundersnot available
KeywordsDomain (mathematical analysis)Scientific evidenceProcess (computing)Risk analysis (engineering)Sociology of scientific knowledgeUncertaintyRisk assessmentManagement scienceEngineering ethicsPolitical scienceComputer scienceEpistemologyBusinessSociologySocial scienceEngineeringComputer security

Abstract

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Abstract Quantitative risk assessments based on scientific understandings of a risk issue are often used in managing risk controversies in a policy domain. However, in several areas of risk, particularly in an environment and health domain, managing uncertainties in scientific knowledge is difficult and complex. It is important to understand how the production and use of scientific evidence can be understood as a social process and how scientific evidence may be used in regulatory decision making.

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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)0.026
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.058
Version: metacan-v3-hybrid-931329e0061cValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesScience and technology studies
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Theoretical or conceptual · Consensus signal: Theoretical or conceptual
GenreCandidate signal: Other · Consensus signal: Other
Teacher disagreement score0.995
Threshold uncertainty score0.139

Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0260.058
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0010.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0010.001
Bibliometrics0.0060.006
Science and technology studies0.0050.028
Scholarly communication0.0180.013
Open science0.0010.007
Research integrity0.0080.007
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0130.001

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 head0.031
GPT teacher head0.376
Teacher spread0.345 · 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.

Study designTheoretical or conceptual
Domainnot available
GenreOther

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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