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Record W4399569350 · doi:10.4337/9781802207859.00012

Dealing with inaccuracy

2024· book-chapter· en· W4399569350 on OpenAlexaboutno aff
Peter A.G. van Bergeijk

Bibliographic record

VenueEdward Elgar Publishing eBooks · 2024
Typebook-chapter
Languageen
FieldSocial Sciences
TopicQualitative Comparative Analysis Research
Canadian institutionsnot available
Fundersnot available
KeywordsComputer science

Abstract

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This chapter underscores the critical importance of addressing measurement errors in economic observations to uphold scientific integrity and foster progress. It emphasizes the need for economists to transparently report such errors from the outset of their careers and advocates for non-technical tools to enhance communication, including precise language and detailed data collection descriptions. The chapter promotes a culture of continuous improvement and error detection through data sensitivity analysis and triangulation. It discusses efforts to address inaccuracy in economic observations, highlighting the use of visual reporting and historical examples. The chapter further explores best practices in reporting data quality, using examples from Statistics Canada, the UK Office for National Statistics, CPB Netherlands’ World Trade Monitor and the Swedish Riksbank. It emphasizes the feasibility of transparent reporting on measurement error and calls for standardized practices. Lastly, the chapter stresses the importance of triangulation in research and considering multiple sources and methods for robust findings. It advocates for replication, structured reviews and meta-analyses as tools for evaluating literature and providing insights for researchers and policymakers.

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How this classification was reachedexpand

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)0.004
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.001
Version: codex-gemma-dda1882f352aValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesMeta-epidemiology (narrow), Scholarly communication, Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)
Consensus categoriesInsufficient payload (model declined to judge)
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Theoretical or conceptual · Consensus signal: none
GenreCandidate signal: Other · Consensus signal: Other
Teacher disagreement score0.757
Threshold uncertainty score1.000

Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0040.001
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0010.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0010.000
Bibliometrics0.0010.000
Science and technology studies0.0010.001
Scholarly communication0.0050.001
Open science0.0010.000
Research integrity0.0010.002
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0030.002

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 head0.092
GPT teacher head0.382
Teacher spread0.291 · 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; both teacher heads agree on what is shown here.

Study designTheoretical or conceptual
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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