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Record W4319334482 · doi:10.1111/cdoe.12787

The Necessity of qualitative research for advancing oral health

2023· article· en· W4319334482 on OpenAlexaff
Mary Ellen Macdonald

Bibliographic record

VenueCommunity Dentistry And Oral Epidemiology · 2023
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldHealth Professions
TopicDental Education, Practice, Research
Canadian institutionsMcGill UniversityMcGill University Health Centre
Fundersnot available
KeywordsSophisticationQualitative researchEngineering ethicsMoralityMedicineOral healthPoliticsSociologyMythologyPublic relationsEpistemologySocial sciencePolitical scienceLaw

Abstract

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Researchers are engaged with producing knowledge. Through this knowledge production, they make claims about the world. For applied health researchers, our knowledge production is both a scientific as well as a moral activity. Increasingly, oral health researchers are turning to qualitative research, a research approach that takes science and morality seriously. Qualitative research pushes researchers to think about the different worlds in which people live and work, and endeavours to generate data that reflect those worlds. This paper argues that humans are complex, and that qualitative approaches are necessary for understanding how we are all deeply embedded in historical, social, cultural and political contexts, and why this matters when thinking about oral health. This paper also dispels myths about the limitations of qualitative research and proposes future directions to improve the sophistication of qualitative oral health sciences.

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How this classification was reachedexpand

Direct model labels (unvalidated)

Per-model category and study-design labels from the labeling rounds. They are machine output, unvalidated, and the disagreement between models ships as data. No study design here is MEDLINE-validated yet.

Model armCategoriesStudy designConfidence
gemmaMetaresearch
Domain: Methods · Genre: Commentary
About the Canadian research system: no · About a Canadian topic: no
Theoretical or conceptuallow
gptMetaresearch
Domain: Methods · Genre: Commentary
About the Canadian research system: no · About a Canadian topic: no
Not applicablemedium
models splitAgreement compares identical category sets and study designs across arms.

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)0.152
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.106
Version: codex-gemma-dda1882f352aValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesMetaresearch, Science and technology studies, Research integrity
Consensus categoriesMetaresearch
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Observational · Consensus signal: Observational
GenreCandidate signal: Empirical · Consensus signal: Empirical
Teacher disagreement score0.225
Threshold uncertainty score1.000

Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.1520.106
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0010.000
Bibliometrics0.0000.001
Science and technology studies0.0070.001
Scholarly communication0.0000.000
Open science0.0010.001
Research integrity0.0000.003
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 head0.726
GPT teacher head0.733
Teacher spread0.007 · 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

Labeled directly by 2 models reading the full record.

Metaresearch

The models disagree on parts of this classification; every voice is preserved in the section at the end of the page.

Study designTheoretical or conceptual · Not applicable
DomainMethods
GenreCommentary

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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Published2023
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