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Record W4211180002 · doi:10.1017/9781108783453.002

The Art of Deluding Ourselves and Others

2020· book-chapter· en· W4211180002 on OpenAlexaff
Mark Jaccard

Bibliographic record

VenueCambridge University Press eBooks · 2020
Typebook-chapter
Languageen
FieldSocial Sciences
TopicClimate Change Communication and Perception
Canadian institutionsSimon Fraser University
Fundersnot available
KeywordsDelusionMisinformationPoliticsPower (physics)Tobacco useDependency (UML)PsychologyPolitical scienceSocial psychologyPsychiatryMedicineLawEnvironmental healthEngineering

Abstract

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Our tendency to delude ourselves and others especially presents problems when those who benefit from delusion also have more power in society for political and/or economic reasons. The multi-decade struggle to accept the science and take policy actions on the risk to human health from smoking is an example of this delusion challenge. The tobacco industry devoted significant resources on selective research, false advertising, and political lobbying to delay our ability to address the smoking risk. And the propensity of people to finally reject the misinformation and accept the science depended on their dependency on tobacco–related income or their inconvenience in giving up smoking.

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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)0.004
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.005
Version: metacan-v3-hybrid-931329e0061cValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesnone
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Theoretical or conceptual · Consensus signal: Theoretical or conceptual
GenreCandidate signal: Other · Consensus signal: Other
Teacher disagreement score0.011
Threshold uncertainty score0.023

Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0040.005
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0010.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0000.000
Bibliometrics0.0010.001
Science and technology studies0.0070.051
Scholarly communication0.0110.011
Open science0.0010.006
Research integrity0.0030.010
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0070.003

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 head0.285
GPT teacher head0.330
Teacher spread0.044 · 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 designTheoretical or conceptual
Domainnot available
GenreOther

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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