Reconceptualization of “People Experiencing Homelessness” in Chile: A Proposal Using the Radial Categories Method
Bibliographic record
Abstract
In recent years, the State of Chile redefined the concept of "people experiencing homelessness," making progress in issues of inclusion and a more comprehensive approach to the phenomenon. However, this process may have been hindered by the issue of "conceptual stretching," which refers to the expansion of the concept beyond its original meaning, leading to imprecision in its definition and understanding. This imprecision complicated the formulation and implementation of effective public policies, as the current definitions failed to adequately capture the diverse manifestations of homelessness. To address this problem, the objective of the article was to propose a reconceptualization of the term using the radial categories methodology, with the goal of enhancing its clarity and utility in practice. To achieve this, a comparative review of definitions in both national and international contexts was conducted, identifying key categories that revolve around the core of the concept. Through this approach, a more precise conceptual framework was developed, which could improve the capacity of public policies to address the needs and challenges of people experiencing homelessness. The results showed that this reconceptualization provided a clearer and more appropriate tool for social intervention, highlighting its implications for both public policy and intervention strategies.
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame distilled prediction
Teacher imitationNot 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.
Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.002 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
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.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one teacher head, not a consensus.
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".