Replication of Cameron et al. [2019] 'Empathy is hard work' at McGill University
Bibliographic record
Abstract
We are a group of 4 students who completed a replication study for a Research Methods Lab in Social Psychology class at McGill University. This is a replication of Cameron et al. [2019] Empathy is hard work. Our additional measure included a subjective time perception variable looking at how trait empathy influences an individual's subjective experience of time during a cognitively demanding task. Our final sample consisted of 64 participants recruited through the McGill University SONA participant pool. Our replication was successful with results reflecting those of the original study. Our additional hypothesis was not supported with results being statistically insignificant.
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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 | 0.012 | 0.005 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.002 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.001 | 0.006 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.004 | 0.009 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.001 | 0.004 |
| Open science | 0.032 | 0.016 |
| Research integrity | 0.002 | 0.002 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.016 | 0.030 |
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; both teacher heads agree on what is shown here.
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".