A phenomenologic inquiry into adolescent girls' personal experience with Baby Think It Over(TM).
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Abstract
The purpose of this study was to explore the adolescent girls' personal experience with the Baby Think It Over(TM)---an infant simulator. The study was guided by Erikson's depiction of adolescence as a period characterized by a maturational crisis that culminates in either identity formation or identity diffusion. Participants were invited through total population sampling resulting in utilization of the stories of nine adolescent girls. This qualitative study employed the phenomenological approach based on Merleau-Ponty's philosophical ideas and utilizing Colaizzi's method of analysis. Data was collected using audio-taped, semi-structured interviews. Ten themes became apparent: (1) Recognition of illusion of preconceived ideas about parenting an infant; (2) Perception of societal disapproval; (3) Hardships encountered during the week as opposed to the weekend; (4) Augmentation of difficulty during guardianship of the boy Baby Think It Over(TM); (5) Profound desire for relinquishment; (6) Allocation of marks as incentive for compliance; (7) Parental endorsement of the experience; (8) Participants' counsel; (9) Affective journey; and (10) Eclectic insights. The new perspectives gained by the participants differed markedly from the romantic fantasies they created prior to the experience and initiated thinking processes relative to future consequences of sexual activity. Further research will help evaluate the premise that exposing adolescents to the realities of parenting could lead to a decrease in adolescent pregnancies. Paper copy at Leddy Library: Theses & Major Papers - Basement, West Bldg. / Call Number: Thesis2000 .M355. Source: Masters Abstracts International, Volume: 40-03, page: 0679. Adviser: Lynnette Leeseberg Stamler. Thesis (M.Sc.)--University of Windsor (Canada), 2000.
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Full frame machine prediction
Teacher imitationNot 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.
Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.005 | 0.009 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.007 | 0.009 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.005 | 0.004 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.005 |
| Research integrity | 0.001 | 0.003 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.002 | 0.000 |
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.
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; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.
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