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Fieldwork

2018· other· en· W4254942455 on OpenAlexaff
Wayne Fife

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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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)0.014
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.028
Version: metacan-v3-hybrid-931329e0061cValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesnone
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Not applicable · Consensus signal: none
GenreCandidate signal: Other · Consensus signal: Other
Teacher disagreement score0.245
Threshold uncertainty score0.000

Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0140.028
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0010.001
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0010.001
Bibliometrics0.0050.003
Science and technology studies0.0070.002
Scholarly communication0.0050.003
Open science0.0050.006
Research integrity0.0020.003
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.2450.083

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

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 designNot applicable
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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