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Record W1571225145 · doi:10.3138/cbmh.18.1.109

Stature Analysis of Perris Indian School Students, 1894–99

2001· article· en· W1571225145 on OpenAlex

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venuePublished in a venue whose home country is Canada.
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

VenueCanadian Journal of Health History · 2001
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldSocial Sciences
TopicEducation Methods and Practices
Canadian institutionsnot available
Fundersnot available
KeywordsAnthropometryEthnic groupPovertyPopulationDemographyGovernment (linguistics)Poverty levelGerontologyGeographyMedicineSociologyPolitical scienceAnthropologyLaw

Abstract

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Keller uses anthropometric measurement to examine the health of Native American children attending the Perris Indian School of Southern California during the last decade of the nineteenth century. She compares the mean stature of children at Perris with similar historical and contemporary populations and analyzes their nutrition and linear patterns which reflect on the health of given populations. In accordance with anthropometric research, the taller the population, the better the population's overall health. Keller shows that in comparison to other populations, the children attending Perris Indian School would be considered the "tallest in the world." Such a conclusion contradicts research in this volume by Trafzer and Hyer. Keller questions her findings. She argues that Native parents clearly privileged their children in terms of food, but that the methodology she employs does not take into consideration variables such as genetics, ethnicity, or culture. Administrators screened students attending the school to exclude those with illnesses or physical disabilities. The healthiest children attended Perris while the remainder of the Native population in the region was under stress due to government policies and poverty.

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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)0.005
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.001
Version: codex-gemma-dda1882f352aValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesInsufficient payload (model declined to judge)
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Not applicable · Consensus signal: none
GenreCandidate signal: Empirical · Consensus signal: Empirical
Teacher disagreement score0.643
Threshold uncertainty score0.996

Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0050.001
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0000.000
Bibliometrics0.0010.001
Science and technology studies0.0000.000
Scholarly communication0.0000.000
Open science0.0000.000
Research integrity0.0000.000
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0050.000

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 head0.082
GPT teacher head0.445
Teacher spread0.363 · 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