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Record W7117246299 · doi:10.21083/caree.v1i1.8938

Rourke’s General Farm Practice Change Theory: A Pull Approach

2025· article· W7117246299 on OpenAlexaboutno aff
David Rourke

Bibliographic record

VenueCanadian Agri-food & Rural Advisory Extension and Education Journal · 2025
Typearticle
Language
FieldAgricultural and Biological Sciences
TopicRural development and sustainability
Canadian institutionsnot available
Fundersnot available
KeywordsGlobal warmingWork (physics)Climate changeExploratory researchExploratory analysisGlobal changeAgriculture

Abstract

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Introduction: The science of anthropogenic global warming is well established. Burning 100 M barrels of oil equivalent does do harm, yet in the USA Mid-West as well as in Alberta. 90% of farmers sampled either did not believe in AGW or thought it is a natural process. Purpose: To examine various change theories and their suitability to help mitigate global warming on Western Canadian grain farms Methods/ Findings: Analysis of the exploratory in-depth qualitative narrative-based research work conducted during my PhD thesis has resulted in development of Rourke’s General Farm Practice Change Theory, a Net Positive farm Framework and a Global warming Mitigation credit framework. Practical Implications: In this paper I discuss and contrast the development of Rourke's General Farm Practice Change Theory as a Pull Change Theory rather than the more common Push approaches. It refers to lessons learnt from the Manitoba -North Dakota Zero Tillage Farmers Association ,1978-2014.

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How this classification was reachedexpand

Full frame machine prediction

Teacher imitation

Not calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.006
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.005
Version: metacan-v3-hybrid-931329e0061cValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesnone
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Theoretical or conceptual · Consensus signal: Theoretical or conceptual
GenreCandidate signal: Empirical · Consensus signal: none
Teacher disagreement score0.028
Threshold uncertainty score0.108

Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0060.005
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0010.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0000.001
Bibliometrics0.0040.003
Science and technology studies0.0040.028
Scholarly communication0.0060.006
Open science0.0020.005
Research integrity0.0020.002
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0050.001

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 head0.023
GPT teacher head0.250
Teacher spread0.228 · 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

Classification

machine, unvalidated

Machine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.

The models applied no category: nothing in the taxonomy fit this work.
Study designTheoretical or conceptual
Domainnot available
GenreEmpirical

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".

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