From Budgeting to Buying: Canadian Consumerism in the Post War Era
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Bibliographic record
Abstract
From the late 1940s to the early 1960s Canadians shifted from a predilection for careful budgeting and "making do" to consumers in training, and later, full-fledged participants in the buy now, pay later mode of North American consumption prevalent from the sixties to the present. Using three "typical" Canadian families featured by Chatelaine Magazine in 1949, 1954 and 1962 as the hub of analysis, this article examines the transformation in attitudes toward domestic spending, the use of credit, and the manner in which new patterns of spending and consumption were simultaneously reflected in and authorized by the magazine.
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Full frame distilled prediction
Teacher imitationNot 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.
Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.051 | 0.015 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.024 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.000 | 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 it