Targeting Teens: A One Hour Avalanche Awareness Program
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Abstract
The Canadian winter of 1997-98 exacted a toll of21 backcountry avalanche related deaths. Six teenagers, comprised of three skiers, one snowboarder and two snowmobilers, were killed. This was an alanning number of youth killed in avalanches in Canada. One-hour talks, using the lesson plan format, were developed to increase knowledge and awareness in youth of the risks associated with skiing, snowboarding or snowmobiling in uncontrolled avalanche terrain. Grade 10 students in physical education classes in city and rural high schools are the target group. Students are introduced to three key SMARTRISK concepts; Get trained, Wear the gear, and Look first. Ski area signage is shown, and avalanche rescue equipment is demonstrated. The Canadian Ski Patrol System (CSPS) Avalanche: Be Aware pamphlet is given to each participant for reference. Students are advised to take a Recreational Avalanche Course (RAe) from ~ qualified provider. Since 1997, it is estimated that over 10,000 high school students have attended one-hour avalanche awareness talks. There has been an increase in the number of teenagers attending RACs in Canada. Delivery of the program has expanded within Canada and to the United States. Teenagers who have attended the program report modifying their behaviour in relation to travel in avalanche terrain, but currently this has not been quantified. A one-hour avalanche awareness talk targeted for teenagers and suitable for delivery in high schools is a first step in increasing avalanche risk awareness in youth.
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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 | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.003 | 0.001 |
| Open science | 0.002 | 0.001 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.081 | 0.002 |
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".