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Record W2993640618 · doi:10.22148/001c.11826

Do we know what we are doing?

2020· article· en· W2993640618 on OpenAlexaffvenue
Andrew Piper

Bibliographic record

VenueJournal of Cultural Analytics · 2020
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldPsychology
TopicMental Health Research Topics
Canadian institutionsMcGill University
Fundersnot available
KeywordsOpen scienceValue (mathematics)Norm (philosophy)Psychological scienceReplication (statistics)PsychologySpace (punctuation)Social psychologyEpistemologySociologyPolitical scienceComputer scienceLawMathematicsStatistics

Abstract

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In November 2012, the newly created Open Science Collaboration published a brief article announcing a multi-year effort to "estimate the reproducibility of psychological science." The collaboration was directed by Brian Nosek of the University of Virginia and would eventually involve over 250 co-authors. According to the collaboration, reproducibility was one of, if not the single most defining feature of the social endeavor known as "science." "Other types of belief," the authors write, "depend on the authority and motivations of the source; beliefs in science do not." The ability to reproduce scientific results across time and space -- the ability to have results be independent of the individuals involved -- is what the authors argued makes science science. And yet the eventual findings of the reproducibility project showed a remarkable reproductive failure. Over half of all studies failed to indicate similar effects upon replication. The very value upon which science was supposed to be founded appeared to be an exception rather than a norm.

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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)0.046
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.170
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: Not applicable
GenreCandidate signal: Commentary · Consensus signal: Commentary
Teacher disagreement score0.046
Threshold uncertainty score0.242

Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0460.170
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0010.001
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0010.001
Bibliometrics0.0020.003
Science and technology studies0.0090.025
Scholarly communication0.0190.024
Open science0.0010.007
Research integrity0.0050.015
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0140.009

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 head0.150
GPT teacher head0.446
Teacher spread0.296 · 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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Published2020
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