Why Bother? A Socio-Theological Inquiry into Dimensions of Compassion in the Boomer Culture of Ottawa
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Abstract
Ontario will soon become an aging society (2017) at a time when this once rich province has become a have not province in Canada according to definitions used to assess federal-provincial transfer payments. In the past half century since the 1960’s the public culture has shifted from one dominated by Anglo-Saxon Christian values and social norms to one that is highly urbanized and multicultural seeking to welcome and balance the values and norms of many cultures and faiths. Much has changed in the life time of what is now the aging Boomer generation. Practical theology provides an approach to practical moral reasoning and practical wisdom in the light of Christian tradition with which to engage in the ethical and moral challenges in contemporary culture. From the perspective of Christian tradition compassion at the collective and personal levels will be essential to ensure that future generations have the means with which to carry forward the tradition of a just and caring society. Such a society must demonstrate respect for human dignity of the individual while assuming a collective responsibility for the common good by engaging the voices of people most affected by the interests of the powerful. Compassion needs hope, and hope needs faith in something life giving. This dissertation presents an approach for young seniors with which to begin to create this future through locating in their life stories the sources of faith that inspires hope in life with the freedom to sustain compassionate engagement with those on the margins of society, particularly frail elders in the years ahead. ix
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How this classification was reachedexpand
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 | 0.003 | 0.003 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.046 | 0.041 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.011 | 0.004 |
| Open science | 0.002 | 0.006 |
| Research integrity | 0.002 | 0.004 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.003 | 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.
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".