MétaCan
Menu
Back to cohort
Record W1555055905 · doi:10.14288/bcs.v0i120.1476

On the Nisga'a Treaty

2010· article· en· W1555055905 on OpenAlex

Why this work is in the frame

A frame that forgets how it found something cannot be audited. These are the routes that admitted this work.

aboutThe title or abstract carries a Canadian signal from the geographic lexicon.
no affNo Canadian affiliation: this work is invisible to an affiliation-only frame.
No Canadian affiliation. An affiliation-only frame, the usual design, would never have seen this work. It is one of the works that make the case for inverting the frame.

Bibliographic record

VenueOpen Collections · 2010
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldSocial Sciences
TopicCanadian Identity and History
Canadian institutionsnot available
Fundersnot available
KeywordsRatificationDoctrineArgument (complex analysis)TreatyLawSettlement (finance)Political scienceAutonomyMeaning (existential)Law and economicsSociologyPhilosophyEpistemologyPoliticsEconomics

Abstract

fetched live from OpenAlex

I CANNOT COMMENT ON T H E DETAIL of the Nisga'a treaty, which is now up for ratification, but there are certain broad features of it that seem to be essential. However, these seem to be exactly the ones that are being heavily criticized in the BC press. If the kind of thinking that is expressed in some of the comments prevails, all hope of a genuine settlement between Canadian governments and Aboriginals will be dashed. W h a t are these criticisms? I want to talk about two here. i. The first is that the deal is racist. This is a hot-button word to throw into the debate. As one who has heard Quebeckers called racist because they prize their autonomy, I know that this word needs to be taken with a grain of salt. But those who use it are not offering an argument; they are trying to stop people thinking by provoking them to go into a spasm of negative reaction. And this hardly helps. W h a t does racism mean? Well, one meaning applies to Nazis, members of the Ku Klux Klan, and the like. They operate out of a doctrine that a certain group is biologically inferior and so adopting policies that reflect that inferiority, including depriving the target group of certain rights and capacities that others enjoy. No one is adopting such a doctrine in the present case, and no group is being thus targeted. The whole thing comes down to something much less dramatic. It is that by the Nisga'a treaty, and probably a host of others across the country, certain powers of self-government will be given to a group that is defined by descent; that is, a group that others can't join at will. A minute's reflection will show that this is an essential part of any serious proposal for Aboriginal self-rule.

Fetched live from OpenAlex and de-inverted. Abstracts are not stored in this database: the inverted indexes are 8.6 GB of the frame’s 9.3 GB of text, and the host has 13 GB free.

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 categoriesScience and technology studies, Scholarly communication, Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Not applicable · Consensus signal: Not applicable
GenreCandidate signal: Other · Consensus signal: Other
Teacher disagreement score0.056
Threshold uncertainty score0.997

Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0000.000
Bibliometrics0.0000.001
Science and technology studies0.0220.000
Scholarly communication0.0040.000
Open science0.0000.000
Research integrity0.0000.000
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0380.000

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 head0.018
GPT teacher head0.262
Teacher spread0.245 · 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