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Record W1491306357

The Critic’s Eye: Stuart Pierson on Newfoundland

2010· article· en· W1491306357 on OpenAlexaffvenueabout
Adrian Fowler

Bibliographic record

VenueNewfoundland and Labrador Studies · 2010
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldSocial Sciences
TopicCanadian Identity and History
Canadian institutionsMemorial University of Newfoundland
Fundersnot available
KeywordsScrutinyParagraphPostmodernismAffectionSuspectWishHistoryObject (grammar)Art historyArtSociologyLiteraturePhilosophyLawLinguisticsPolitical scienceEpistemology
DOInot available

Abstract

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STUART PIERSON PROBABLY would have approved of at least half of the title given to the posthumous publication of his reviews and essays on Newfoundland, Hardheaded and Big-hearted: Writing Newfoundland, edited by Stan Dragland (St. John’s: Pennywell Books, 2006). But the “Writing Newfoundland” half would, I suspect, have elicited vintage Pierson scorn. With its once (but no longer) daring suppression of the idiomatic preposition between the participle and the object, this staple of postmodern provocation would have inspired a paragraph, if not a page, of gleeful dismantling (emphatically not deconstructing) on his part. The first half of the title, a phrase of his own creation conjured up for an imagined work, would likely have pleased him. Hard-headed and big-hearted he was, as this collection amply demonstrates, forever questioning the rationality and factuality of what he read or heard said about the place, yet always conveying respect, appreciation, and occasionally affection for the people and the culture. Pierson takes Newfoundland seriously, more seriously at times than some of his subjects might wish. He considers with relentless scrutiny every ponderous pronouncement by experts and every

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How this classification was reachedexpand

Full frame distilled prediction

Teacher imitation

Not 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.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.001
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.000
Version: codex-gemma-dda1882f352aValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesScience and technology studies
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Not applicable · Consensus signal: none
GenreCandidate signal: Empirical · Consensus signal: Empirical
Teacher disagreement score0.817
Threshold uncertainty score0.996

Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0010.000
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0000.000
Bibliometrics0.0000.000
Science and technology studies0.0050.002
Scholarly communication0.0010.000
Open science0.0000.000
Research integrity0.0000.000
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0000.000

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.

Opus teacher head0.017
GPT teacher head0.297
Teacher spread0.280 · 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 teacher head, not a consensus.

Study designNot applicable
Domainnot available
GenreEmpirical

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