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Record W4249122391 · doi:10.7189/jogh.10.010101

Helping global health topics go viral online

2020· editorial· en· W4249122391 on OpenAlexaff
Iain H. Campbell, Igor Rudan

Bibliographic record

VenueJournal of Global Health · 2020
Typeeditorial
Languageen
FieldSocial Sciences
TopicMisinformation and Its Impacts
Canadian institutionsCentre for Global Health Research
Fundersnot available
KeywordsMisinformationGossipPublic relationsEntertainmentContext (archaeology)Public healthInternet privacyPopulationHealth communicationPopulation healthPolitical sciencePsychologyMedicineComputer scienceSocial psychologyHistoryEnvironmental health

Abstract

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lobal health is a rapidly evolving field of biomedical science, but it also has a social, political and economic dimension that tends to capture people's imagination. This makes global health research amenable to community engagement and popularization among general public. However, it is difficult to know which strategies would work best to attract a large number of viewers to video materials that convey accurate global health information. This is particularly important in recent years, where it became apparent that any reliable information online could soon get its seductive, but inaccurate counterpart in an effort to enhance someone's personal "click bait" rate Humans seem to be quite receptive to alternative views, especially when they are surprising, shocking or spectacular, or when they seem to be contrary to long-held popular beliefs or common knowledge Such news always tends to be more interesting to broad population than the stories that merely consolidate or confirm the existing knowledge But this also poses a potential danger when the creators of alternative and fake news "attack" an important public health issue and cause confusion among the population, thus risking reversal in many hard-achieved gains in population health Anti-vaccine movements and are probably the most striking example of this risk

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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)0.002
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.002
Version: codex-gemma-dda1882f352aValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesMeta-epidemiology (narrow)
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Not applicable · Consensus signal: Not applicable
GenreCandidate signal: Editorial · Consensus signal: Editorial
Teacher disagreement score0.094
Threshold uncertainty score1.000

Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0020.002
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0010.000
Bibliometrics0.0000.001
Science and technology studies0.0010.000
Scholarly communication0.0000.001
Open science0.0010.000
Research integrity0.0010.001
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 head0.031
GPT teacher head0.440
Teacher spread0.409 · 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 teacher head, not a consensus.

Study designNot applicable
Domainnot available
GenreEditorial

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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