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An Elephant in the Desert

2015· article· en· W1896223996 on OpenAlexvenueno aff
Vidya Sarveswaran

Bibliographic record

VenueThe Trumpeter · 2015
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldPsychology
TopicParanormal Experiences and Beliefs
Canadian institutionsnot available
Fundersnot available
KeywordsDesert (philosophy)NarrativeMythologyPoliticsLegendPersonal lifeTempestExperiential learningPersonal narrativeStewardship (theology)HistorySociologyAestheticsArt historyEnvironmental ethicsLiteratureArtLawPolitical sciencePhilosophyPedagogy
DOInot available

Abstract

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An Elephant in the Desert is a narrative that talks about the writer's personal meeting with Terry Tempest Williams, the American writer from Utah. As a Fulbright scholar working on the writings of Williams, this personal meeting with Williams was one of the most defining moment of the writer's life. The experiential narrative discusses issues ranging from the personal to the political and the sacred in Williams's writings, the role of myth and legend and how they can redefine our ecological imagination. It also talks about staying deeply connected to the Universe at large how stories enact our life patterns, connect us to the physical world around us, and teach us stewardship.

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How this classification was reachedexpand

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)0.001
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.000
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: Qualitative · Consensus signal: none
GenreCandidate signal: Empirical · Consensus signal: Empirical
Teacher disagreement score0.635
Threshold uncertainty score1.000

Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0010.000
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0000.000
Bibliometrics0.0000.000
Science and technology studies0.0000.000
Scholarly communication0.0000.000
Open science0.0000.000
Research integrity0.0000.000
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0000.001

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.

Opus teacher head0.093
GPT teacher head0.399
Teacher spread0.306 · 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

Classification

machine, unvalidated

Machine predicted; a candidate call from one teacher head, not a consensus.

Study designQualitative
Domainnot available
GenreEmpirical

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".

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