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Record W4416275040 · doi:10.1080/13645579.2025.2590501

Thinking through country-as-culture qualitative sampling

2025· article· en· W4416275040 on OpenAlex

Why this work is in the frame

A frame that forgets how it found something cannot be audited. These are the routes that admitted this work.

affAt least one author lists a Canadian institution in the pinned OpenAlex snapshot.
fundA Canadian funder is recorded on the work.
aboutThe title or abstract carries a Canadian signal from the geographic lexicon.

Bibliographic record

VenueInternational Journal of Social Research Methodology · 2025
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldSocial Sciences
TopicQualitative Research Methods and Ethics
Canadian institutionsCape Breton UniversityMount Saint Vincent University
FundersSocial Sciences and Humanities Research Council of CanadaMount Saint Vincent University
KeywordsQualitative researchSampling (signal processing)Data collectionResearch methodologyScale (ratio)Probability sampling

Abstract

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Culture and Perspectives on Sexual Assault Policy was a qualitative, focus-group study that deployed nationally and regionally defined samples of domestic and international students in Nova Scotia, Canada. The objective was to produce recommendations for culturally relevant university sexual violence policies and responses. We contribute to discussions about methodological advantages and disadvantages of country-as-culture sampling, suggesting the following: 1) National/regional sampling strategies may be particularly well suited to research topics impacted by national and international structures. 2) Resonance of national and/or regional categories among participants during qualitative data collection may validate this sampling strategy. 3) Researchers can offset stereotyping by highlighting perspectival heterogeneity within sampled groups. 4) Country as culture sampling may be complimented by strategies that engage other axes of identity. We suggest three such approaches: stakeholder consultations to identify additional groups relevant to the study, follow-up questionnaires and/or interviews, and reflection about groups that have not been included.

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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)0.142
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.135
Version: codex-gemma-dda1882f352aValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesMetaresearch, Science and technology studies, Research integrity
Consensus categoriesMetaresearch, Science and technology studies
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Theoretical or conceptual · Consensus signal: Theoretical or conceptual
GenreCandidate signal: Methods · Consensus signal: Methods
Teacher disagreement score0.319
Threshold uncertainty score1.000

Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.1420.135
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0000.000
Bibliometrics0.0010.001
Science and technology studies0.0020.003
Scholarly communication0.0000.001
Open science0.0020.000
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 head0.783
GPT teacher head0.772
Teacher spread0.011 · 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