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Record W1534449818

Icon Under Fire: The Giant Canada Geese of Rochester, Minnesota

2012· dissertation· en· W1534449818 on OpenAlexaboutno aff
Daniel Eckberg

Bibliographic record

VenueUniversity of Minnesota Digital Conservancy (University of Minnesota) · 2012
Typedissertation
Languageen
FieldSocial Sciences
TopicGeographies of human-animal interactions
Canadian institutionsnot available
Fundersnot available
KeywordsIconGeographyGenealogyHistoryCartographyArchaeologyComputer science
DOInot available

Abstract

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For over 30 years the giant Canada goose was thought to be extinct, but in 1962
\nthe species was rediscovered in Rochester, Minnesota. Ever since, the city has held a
\nspecial bond with the species and specifically its local flock. As the goose population has
\ngrown, it has become, in some eyes, an intolerable nuisance and a public health threat. In
\nresponse to complaints, local officials have taken steps to limit human contact and stymie
\nthe flock’s growth, polarizing people supporting and opposing the measures and leaving
\nthe city at a crossroads. By analyzing the diverse actions and outcomes of communities
\nacross North America that have faced similar issues with Canada geese and
\nacknowledging the unique cultural and economic ties between Rochester and its geese, a
\ncourse of action is developed and recommended. Such a plan would balance the well
\nbeing and contentment of the city’s residents with the local connections to the flock, and
\nthus necessarily retain at least some of the geese, while improving their management.

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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)0.000
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.000
Version: codex-gemma-dda1882f352aValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesMeta-epidemiology (narrow), Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Qualitative · Consensus signal: none
GenreCandidate signal: Empirical · Consensus signal: Empirical
Teacher disagreement score0.384
Threshold uncertainty score1.000

Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0010.001
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0010.001
Bibliometrics0.0000.001
Science and technology studies0.0010.002
Scholarly communication0.0000.002
Open science0.0020.000
Research integrity0.0010.001
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0020.000

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 head0.224
Teacher spread0.207 · 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 designQualitative
Domainnot available
GenreEmpirical

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".

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Published2012
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