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Social Media and Science: A Double-Edged Sword of (Mis)Communication?

2022· article· en· W4210565562 on OpenAlexaff
Zinnia Chung

Bibliographic record

VenueUniversity of Waterloo Journal of Undergraduate Health Research · 2022
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldSocial Sciences
TopicMisinformation and Its Impacts
Canadian institutionsUniversity of Waterloo
Fundersnot available
KeywordsMisinformationSocial mediaDistrustScrutinySWORDPublic relationsInternet privacyPower (physics)Quality (philosophy)Political scienceSociologyComputer scienceLawWorld Wide Web

Abstract

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Hailed as an indispensable tool for 21st-century communication, online media platforms have played major roles in the proliferation of knowledge worldwide. However, this new outlet of opportunity is not without its drawbacks to consider. With social media continuing to introduce new priorities to communicators, information becomes vulnerable to the fast click approaches to writing, sacrificing the quality of written work to achieve a wider digital reach. At the same time, healthcare professionals themselves become the subjects of scrutiny and distrust, competing with digital actors to share information with the public. Consequently, the negative side of social media makes itself evident amidst the recent global pandemic, illustrating the power that rumours may have on influencing overall health and safety. With this as the case, necessary conversations pertaining to the dangerous nature of social media must be held to both maximize awareness and allow for the avoidance of misinformation.

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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)0.016
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.033
Version: metacan-v3-hybrid-931329e0061cValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesScholarly communication
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Not applicable · Consensus signal: none
GenreCandidate signal: Commentary · Consensus signal: Commentary
Teacher disagreement score0.967
Threshold uncertainty score0.087

Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0160.033
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0010.001
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0010.001
Bibliometrics0.0060.005
Science and technology studies0.0090.062
Scholarly communication0.0330.038
Open science0.0010.011
Research integrity0.0090.009
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0090.002

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 head0.192
GPT teacher head0.427
Teacher spread0.235 · 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 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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