Bibliographic record
Abstract
The "Sixties" are back, at least in the world of academic historians.A number of rich and fascinating publications have recently appeared, and others will soon flow from current graduate student theses.It is a little sobering to witness the historicization of the era in which one came of age, though not unusual.The previous generation of historians (including many of our own university teachers) produced original works on the Depression and World War II some thirty to forty years after these events.Historiographically, it would appear, the Sixties' time has come.That one of Canada's most prolific historians would take up the subject will do nothing to diminish interest in the period.Bryan Palmer has produced a lengthy, readable, and provocative volume.The study is, as advertised, deeply ironic, but alas, not for the reasons that the author contends.The first third of the book is an engaging account of the economic, political and cultural context of the Sixties, including surprising chapters on the Gerda Munsinger sex scandal, and the title fight between boxers George Chuvalo and Muhammad Ali in 1966.Munsinger symbolizes an era in which women were used by politicians and molested by the media for moral "crimes."As an East German working class emigrant who had affairs with Pierre Sévigny and George Hees (both Diefenbaker cabinet members), Munsinger was especially vulnerable to such treatment.In Palmer's view she represented the pervasive sexual commodification of women, the brutality of cold war politics, and Canada's loss of political innocence on the world stage (though one would have thought that the Gouzenko fiasco in 1946 had accomplished that a generation earlier).George Chuvalo, also the child of non-British immigrants, was simultaneously caricatured and celebrated as Canada's "Great White Hope" and was caught up in a political-racial American drama starring the (anti-) hero, Ali, himself
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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 | 0.002 | 0.005 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.003 | 0.005 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.042 | 0.023 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.010 | 0.004 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.004 |
| Research integrity | 0.002 | 0.006 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.010 | 0.001 |
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".