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# Model Card |
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## Model Details |
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### Model Description |
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This model identifies 12 distinct climate change denial strategies or fallacies to classify and analyse texts that express skepticism or opposition to climate change scientific findings. |
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These 12 distinct labels come from the FLICC taxonomy created by John Cook and his colleagues. |
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The FLICC taxonomy divides denial strategies into five primary categories: fake experts, logical fallacies, impossible expectations, cherry-picking, and conspiracy theories. |
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- **Developed by:** Francisco Zanartu, John Cook, Julian Garcia and Markus Wagner |
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- **Model type:** DeBERTa (Decoding-enhanced BERT with disentangled attention) is a Transformer-based neural language model |
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- **Language(s) (NLP):** Finetuned and evaluated on a English dataset. |
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- **License:** [More Information Needed] |
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- **Finetuned from model [optional]:** microsoft/deberta-v2-xlarge |
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| Fallacy Type | Definition | |
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| Ad hominem | Attacking a person/group instead of addressing their arguments | |
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| Anecdote | Using personal experience or isolated examples instead of sound arguments or compelling evidence | |
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| Cherry Picking | Selecting data that appear to confirm one position while ignoring other data that contradicts that position | |
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| Conspiracy theory | Proposing that a secret plan exists to implement a nefarious scheme such as hiding a truth | |
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| Fake experts | Presenting an unqualified person or institution as a source of credible information. | |
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| False choice | Presenting two options as the only possibilities, when other possibilities exist | |
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| False equivalence | Incorrectly claiming that two things are equivalent, despite the fact that there are notable differences between them | |
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| Impossible expectations | Demanding unrealistic standards of certainty before acting on the science | |
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| Misrepresentation | Misrepresenting a situation or an opponent’s position in such a way as to distort understanding | |
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| Oversimplification | Simplifying a situation in such a way as to distort understanding, leading to erroneous conclusions | |
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| Single cause | Assuming a single cause or reason when there might be multiple causes or reasons | |
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| Slothful induction | Ignoring relevant evidence when coming to a conclusion | |
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