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Fieldwork

2018· other· en· W4254942455 on OpenAlex

Why this work is in the frame

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Bibliographic record

VenueThe Blackwell Encyclopedia of Sociology · 2018
Typeother
Languageen
FieldSocial Sciences
TopicQualitative Research Methods and Applications
Canadian institutionsMemorial University of Newfoundland
Fundersnot available
KeywordsInterviewEthnographyVariety (cybernetics)Sociocultural evolutionReliability (semiconductor)Participant observationRelation (database)Context (archaeology)Point (geometry)SociologyPopulationPoliticsPsychologySocial psychologyComputer scienceSocial scienceGeographyArtificial intelligencePolitical scienceMathematicsLaw

Abstract

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Abstract Fieldwork involves long‐term research in which the investigator spends an intensive amount of time inquiring into the way of life of a specific human population. Used properly, it can result in extremely useful portraits of little‐known, misunderstood, or fully unknown ways of life. The main goal is to learn an inside point of view, or what it is like to live as a member of a specific sociocultural formation. Instead of relying on the statistical methods of quantitative research, fieldworkers gather information through a wide variety of ethnographic or qualitative methods. The reliability issue is dealt with through comparing information gathered through more than one research method and by analyzing information in relation to the broader context (e.g., economic, political, religious, institutional). Reliability may also be checked more formally through the use of simple counting schedules. Key methods include participant observation, several kinds of interviewing techniques, and self‐reporting methods. The researcher is always the first and primary research instrument of fieldwork. The key to fieldwork lies in the relationship of mutual trust established between the researcher and those with whom s/he is working. Without such a relationship, productive fieldwork is not possible.

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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)0.001
Version: codex-gemma-dda1882f352aValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesScience and technology studies, Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)
Consensus categoriesInsufficient payload (model declined to judge)
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Not applicable · Consensus signal: Not applicable
GenreCandidate signal: Other · Consensus signal: Other
Teacher disagreement score0.132
Threshold uncertainty score1.000

Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0020.001
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0000.000
Bibliometrics0.0000.000
Science and technology studies0.0000.006
Scholarly communication0.0000.000
Open science0.0010.000
Research integrity0.0000.000
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0150.001

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 head0.061
GPT teacher head0.455
Teacher spread0.395 · 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