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Record W2982251580 · doi:10.24908/iqurcp.10290

The Reality of Olympic Sprinting

2018· article· en· W2982251580 on OpenAlexvenueno aff
Patrick Gravelle

Bibliographic record

VenueInquiry Queen s Undergraduate Research Conference Proceedings · 2018
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldEconomics, Econometrics and Finance
TopicSports Analytics and Performance
Canadian institutionsnot available
Fundersnot available
KeywordsPassionSimplicityCompetition (biology)Computer sciencePsychologyEpistemologySocial psychologyPhilosophy

Abstract

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Every four years, people from around the world gather together to watch the Summer Olympic Games. It is a time of excitement, unity, and excellent competition. However, it is also a time of inspiration for those watching, to pursue a new passion in sports. Moreover, one of the sports all individuals are so easily drawn is that of sprinting. For there is a great simplicity, yet true power to being one of the fastest men or women on the planet. Whether an individual is competing or modestly observing, the world predominantly desires to see, not just who is fast, but who is the fastest. Moreover, this comes from many with the expectation of a world record from one or all sprinting events. However, are these expectations too high, or should the world feel let down when another Olympics passes without a new sprinting world record to claim? This paper aims to provide the exact answer to that question using the fundamental tools from mathematical statistics and probability.

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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)0.003
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.012
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: none
Teacher disagreement score0.014
Threshold uncertainty score0.032

Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0030.012
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0000.000
Bibliometrics0.0010.001
Science and technology studies0.0030.009
Scholarly communication0.0120.007
Open science0.0010.004
Research integrity0.0020.004
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0100.002

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 head0.183
GPT teacher head0.363
Teacher spread0.180 · 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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