Bibliographic record
Abstract
The saying that some books are not finished but abandoned is appropriate for this project.Some abandonment, some book: it's been a long process, made all the longer because of the numerous pathways wandered down then doubled back on.This wasn't because those routes were fruitless: quite the opposite.I hope other scholars can follow them.Other immensely suggestive realms include the link between exams and credentialism; links between French examinations such as the concours and British ones; examinations and the "Cardiff School's" studies of expertise and experience; more focus on non-English parts of the British Isles, particularly Scotland; the dynamics of rules and codification as well as the sociology of formalization; and the passage of forms of examination between China, the rest of Asia, Europe, and the British Empire.Over these years I have amassed great debts.My greatest is to Bernard Lightman, for his mentorship and knowledge of other scholars in the field.One such colleague is Efram Sera-Shriar, whose Babbage-like organizational wizardry I imitated in delegating tasks (particularly to my transcribers, David Zatzman, Julia Nguyen, and Bernhard Isopp).Their work made it possible to range across a wider range of material.
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame distilled prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.
Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.004 | 0.000 |
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 teacher head, 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".