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Record W4407023735 · doi:10.1016/j.sctalk.2025.100431

Subjective-objective method of maximizing extracted variance (Sommev) from governance sub-indicators: Understanding the governance of countries from an integrated and impartial perspective

2025· article· en· W4407023735 on OpenAlex

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Bibliographic record

VenueScience Talks · 2025
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldEconomics, Econometrics and Finance
TopicClimate Change Policy and Economics
Canadian institutionsUniversity of Alberta
Fundersnot available
KeywordsPerspective (graphical)Variance (accounting)Corporate governancePsychologyPolitical scienceBusinessComputer scienceEconomicsAccountingArtificial intelligenceManagement

Abstract

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The construction of governance indicators is a multidimensional construct and faces questions regarding the definition of the weights attributed to its dimensions and sub-indicators. This study compares three existing methods of constructing composite indicators with the Subjective–objective method of maximizing extracted variance (Sommev). The Sommev method establishes weights for composite indicator components considering the subjectivity of the experts' opinion and the objectivity portrayed by the information collected for each sub-indicator. To evaluate the quality of the results generated, it is proposed to verify the average variance extracted, degree of consensus and connection with the external variable. As an example, was constructed governance indicator considering 20 countries with the largest economies in the world. The governance sub-indicators used the components of the Worldwide Governance Indicators (WGI). The GDP per capita was defined as an external variable. It uses World Bank database for the year 2021. The results indicate that countries developed have the best results for the governance indicator. These results corroborate the importance of verifying failures in governance mechanisms. Identify which dimensions have the greatest influence is important to direct public policies more efficiently to foster economic development. The quality verification indicating the robustness of the results.

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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)0.001
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.001
Version: codex-gemma-dda1882f352aValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesnone
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Theoretical or conceptual · Consensus signal: none
GenreCandidate signal: Empirical · Consensus signal: Empirical
Teacher disagreement score0.533
Threshold uncertainty score0.987

Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0010.001
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0010.000
Bibliometrics0.0000.001
Science and technology studies0.0000.001
Scholarly communication0.0000.001
Open science0.0010.000
Research integrity0.0000.000
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 head0.046
GPT teacher head0.299
Teacher spread0.252 · 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