Stereotypes of Elderly Persons in Narrative Jokes
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Bibliographic record
Abstract
The chief objective of this study was to describe and review stereotypes of elderly persons found in adult narrative jokes, based on a conceptual framework drawing from psychoanalytic and cognitive theories of humor. Approximately 4,200 jokes were examined, of which 102 were judged to employ a single predominant stereotype of the elderly. A content analysis by the researcher established eight stereotypes: the impotent male, the unattractive female, the vain/virile male, the disinterested female, the innocence of second childhood, the insatiable female, the forgetful old person, and the infirm old person. The jokes were sorted using these categories by two independent judges. High levels of concordance were found for all stereotypes excepting the innocence of second childhood. Some implications for gerontological education of ageist stereotyping in narrative jokes are reviewed.
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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 | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.001 | 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