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Record W1547222955 · doi:10.20360/g2bg6p

A Conversation With Sarah Withrow

2000· article· en· W1547222955 on OpenAlexvenueno aff
Sandy Casey

Bibliographic record

VenueLanguage and Literacy · 2000
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldSocial Sciences
TopicCaribbean history, culture, and politics
Canadian institutionsnot available
Fundersnot available
KeywordsConversationLiteracySociologyLinguisticsPsychologyCommunicationPedagogyPhilosophy

Abstract

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The informal conversation between Sarah Withrow and me took place one morning in a Kingston Tim Horton's over cups of coffee (black) with chatter and the clinking of cups as background noise.Sarah's first published book for young adults, Bat Summer, was nominated for a 1998 Governor General's Award and won the 1998 Groundwood Twentieth Anniversary First Novel for Children Contest.The novel has been translated into several languages.Forthcoming in the Spring of 2001 will be The Trick With Magic (perhaps under a different title) and a third book for young adults, tentatively titled Goody's Black Sunshine Happiness Party, is nearing completion.Sarah has been writing fiction for most of her life, encouraged by her father, a corporate writer and

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How this classification was reachedexpand

Full frame machine prediction

Teacher imitation

Not 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.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.002
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.010
Version: metacan-v3-hybrid-931329e0061cValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesnone
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Not applicable · Consensus signal: Not applicable
GenreCandidate signal: Other · Consensus signal: none
Teacher disagreement score0.033
Threshold uncertainty score0.109

Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0020.010
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0010.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0000.000
Bibliometrics0.0010.001
Science and technology studies0.0160.004
Scholarly communication0.0030.005
Open science0.0010.005
Research integrity0.0040.013
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0330.007

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 head0.006
GPT teacher head0.262
Teacher spread0.256 · 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 source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.

The models applied no category: nothing in the taxonomy fit this work.
Study designNot applicable
Domainnot available
GenreOther

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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