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Record W4280628220 · doi:10.31235/osf.io/3ypt4

Causal Inference as an Organizational Problem

2022· preprint· en· W4280628220 on OpenAlexaff
Michael D. Ryall, Olav Sorenson

Bibliographic record

Venuenot available
Typepreprint
Languageen
FieldBusiness, Management and Accounting
TopicManagement and Organizational Studies
Canadian institutionsUniversity of Toronto
Fundersnot available
KeywordsPresumptionInferenceVariety (cybernetics)Causal inferenceSet (abstract data type)Management scienceComputer scienceKnowledge managementEpistemologyPolitical scienceArtificial intelligenceEconomicsLawEconometrics

Abstract

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Research on organizations generally presumes that their leaders have the ability to direct the organization towards a set of goals. That presumption, however, depends crucially on the ability of leaders to understand how particular actions or directives might influence organizational outcomes, a problem of causal inference. We develop a formal model of this problem in which managers attempt to infer the effects of possible directives based on what they can observe. Our model reveals that inference only becomes a problem under specific conditions but these conditions seem common in real-world settings. We discuss how a variety of organizational features might mitigate this inference problem.

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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)0.097
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.251
Version: metacan-v3-hybrid-931329e0061cValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesMetaresearch
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: Methods · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Theoretical or conceptual · Consensus signal: Theoretical or conceptual
GenreCandidate signal: Empirical · Consensus signal: none
Teacher disagreement score0.903
Threshold uncertainty score0.511

Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0970.251
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0010.002
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0030.003
Bibliometrics0.0040.004
Science and technology studies0.0040.019
Scholarly communication0.0080.017
Open science0.0040.007
Research integrity0.0090.011
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0090.001

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 head0.021
GPT teacher head0.248
Teacher spread0.227 · 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.

Study designTheoretical or conceptual
DomainMethods
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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Published2022
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