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Big Data: Ideology vs. Enlightenment

2019· article· en· W4206331798 on OpenAlex

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affAt least one author lists a Canadian institution in the pinned OpenAlex snapshot.
venuePublished in a venue whose home country is Canada.

Bibliographic record

VenueInternational Journal of Computer Auditing · 2019
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldDecision Sciences
TopicBig Data Technologies and Applications
Canadian institutionsUniversity of Victoria
Fundersnot available
KeywordsIdeologyBig dataPoliticsEpistemologyPhilosophyPolitical scienceComputer scienceLaw

Abstract

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<p> “Big Data” is a technological term with a seemingly cognitive connotation that masks an ideological orientation of those attempting to be benevolently, criminally of even “innocently” in control of our knowledge and subsequent actions. Without an epistemological foundation “small” and especially “big” data are a myth. When “the truth” becomes “what’s on a digital screen” under the control of those in charge of “the cloud” we are clouding our cultural heritage voluntarily to an extent that exposes us to the whims of those screening and displaying our data even in so-called “post-truth” fashion. Subsequent information and knowledge cannot be critically and rationally assessed for lack of evidence. All lessons learned during the last four centuries of enlightening efforts seem to be forgotten or ignored by us. Our preference for “cognitive ease” can be easily abused by those in control of modern information technology. We remain in “self-imposed immaturity” (Kant) while they can act primarily for their own economic, political, and social benefits and may even feel “justified” by the big-data-ideology. Knowledge must remain relevant to, testable and rationally believable by the legitimate recipients of any public data and information. An enlightened framework for data governance is overdue in the “digital big data age!”</p>

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Full frame distilled prediction

Teacher imitation

Not 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.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.002
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.000
Version: codex-gemma-dda1882f352aValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesnone
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Not applicable · Consensus signal: none
GenreCandidate signal: Empirical · Consensus signal: none
Teacher disagreement score0.900
Threshold uncertainty score0.827

Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0020.000
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0000.000
Bibliometrics0.0000.000
Science and technology studies0.0000.000
Scholarly communication0.0000.000
Open science0.0040.001
Research integrity0.0000.000
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0000.000

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.

Opus teacher head0.248
GPT teacher head0.395
Teacher spread0.147 · 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