Judgments of Propaganda Near and Far: National Identity and Media Evaluations
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Bibliographic record
Abstract
We often judge others differently than we judge ourselves. This study aimed to investigate whether this asymmetry in judgements also exists for extensions of the self and the other: judging ones own nation compared to a foreign nation. We also asked whether these judgements would be moderated by national identity such that Canadians who identified more strongly with their nation would judge foreign media as more like propaganda than Canadian media. To assess such judgements, we created identical propaganda videos that ostensibly originated from either the Canadian government or a foreign government. When judgements of propaganda were measured covertly, we found no difference in judgements of Canadians and foreign videos. However, when asked explicitly about propaganda, Canadians judged videos from their own nation as more like propaganda compared to foreign videos. Contrary to our prediction, Canadian national identity did not moderate propaganda judgements.
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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 | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.002 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.002 | 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 it