P.A. Clutterbuck on Morley Richards and the Record of the Commission of Government, 1939
Bibliographic record
Abstract
ON 13 JANUARY 1939 the reporter Morley Richards arrived in St. John’s from Liverpool aboard the SS Newfoundland, his purpose being to investigate conditions in the country for Lord Beaverbrook’s crusading newspaper, the London Daily Express. At the time Newfoundland was being administered by a British-appointed Commission of Government. Under the commission system, which had been forced on Newfoundland by a financial crisis brought on by the Great Depression, there was a governor and six commissioners, three of them drawn from the United Kingdom and three from Newfoundland but all named by London. The governor chaired the Commission and the British commissioners held the financial and economic portfolios. The Commission had both executive and legislative authority and was supported by an annual grant-in-aid from the United Kingdom. It was kept on a tight rein by the Secretary of State for Dominion Affairs in London (Sir Thomas Inskip from 29 January to 3 September 1939), who, in turn, was accountable to the United Kingdom Parliament.
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame machine prediction
Teacher imitationNot 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.
Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.004 | 0.013 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.001 | 0.002 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.018 | 0.011 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.011 | 0.006 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.004 |
| Research integrity | 0.006 | 0.009 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.016 | 0.003 |
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 itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.
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".