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Record W4238486033 · doi:10.3138/jsp.36.2.49

The Return of the Armchair Scholar

2005· article· en· W4238486033 on OpenAlexvenueno aff
Sandra Roff

Bibliographic record

VenueJournal of Scholarly Publishing · 2005
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldEconomics, Econometrics and Finance
TopicHistorical Economic and Social Studies
Canadian institutionsnot available
Fundersnot available
KeywordsAmateurScholarshipProfessionalizationDigitizationSociologyThe InternetMedia studiesSocial sciencePolitical sciencePublic relationsEngineeringLawComputer scienceWorld Wide WebTelecommunications

Abstract

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The foundations for the eventual professionalization of social science disciplines can be traced to ‘armchair scholars’ of the nineteenth century. These were amateur researchers who, thanks to financial resources and leisure time, could pursue their academic interests from the comforts of home. In the twenty-first century, with the development of digitization and the numerous online full-text databases, the possibility of researching from home once again exists. The amateur has always played a role in contributing to scholarship, and, with the development of the Internet, the possibilities are limitless for the twenty-first-century ‘armchair scholar.’

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How this classification was reachedexpand

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)0.006
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.007
Version: codex-gemma-dda1882f352aValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesScholarly communication
Consensus categoriesScholarly communication
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Not applicable · Consensus signal: none
GenreCandidate signal: Empirical · Consensus signal: Empirical
Teacher disagreement score0.811
Threshold uncertainty score0.997

Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0060.007
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0000.000
Bibliometrics0.0000.000
Science and technology studies0.0010.000
Scholarly communication0.0040.016
Open science0.0010.000
Research integrity0.0000.002
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 head0.037
GPT teacher head0.213
Teacher spread0.176 · 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; both teacher heads agree on what is shown here.

Study designNot applicable
Domainnot available
GenreEmpirical

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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Citations5
Published2005
Admission routes1
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