The Epistemic Triad: Auditing Participant-Endorsed Selections in Hybrid Human–LLM Coding

Ready for submission. A methods paper comparing participant self-coding, researcher consensus, and model outputs on the same responses.

Authors: Iman YeckehZaare · Venue/status: Field Methods · PDF

This working manuscript introduces the Epistemic Triad: an audit design that links participant-endorsed selections, lineage-complete researcher consensus, and LLM-coded outputs on the same responses.

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