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Record W4368370215 · doi:10.31222/osf.io/bg36w

Some problems with zooming out as scientific reform

2023· preprint· en· W4368370215 on OpenAlexaff
Jessica Hullman

Bibliographic record

Venuenot available
Typepreprint
Languageen
FieldPsychology
TopicMental Health Research Topics
Canadian institutionsScience North
FundersDirectorate for Computer and Information Science and EngineeringMicrosoft ResearchNational Science Foundation
KeywordsRendering (computer graphics)Status quoInterpretabilityComputer scienceZoomEmpirical researchArtificial intelligenceMathematicsPolitical scienceStatisticsEngineering

Abstract

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Like other approaches to rendering explicit and sampling systematically from a design space of empirical results, integrative experiment design (Almaatouq et al. 2023) can improve the status quo in empirical social and behavioral science. However, reform proposals that start from data generated by sampling and expect to get to good theory misconstrue the role of theory in learning from experiments. Attempts to debias data-driven inferences by “zooming out” are also challenged by the inseparability of the results sampled from a design space from the assumptions that produce them, and the difficulty of rendering dependencies explicit without sacrificing interpretability.

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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)0.169
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.421
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: Commentary · Consensus signal: none
Teacher disagreement score0.831
Threshold uncertainty score0.891

Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.1690.421
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0030.002
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0020.003
Bibliometrics0.0020.003
Science and technology studies0.0040.028
Scholarly communication0.0070.017
Open science0.0050.007
Research integrity0.0050.016
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0210.004

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 head0.266
GPT teacher head0.480
Teacher spread0.215 · 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
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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