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Record W1991862186 · doi:10.1177/1077800408318279

Granpa's Call

2008· article· en· W1991862186 on OpenAlexaff
Robert L. Ballard

Bibliographic record

VenueQualitative Inquiry · 2008
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldArts and Humanities
TopicPhilosophy, Ethics, and Existentialism
Canadian institutionsUniversity of Waterloo
Fundersnot available
KeywordsAutoethnographyNarrativeRhetorical questionSociologyLived experienceEveryday lifeConsciencePhenomenonPhenomenology (philosophy)AestheticsPsychoanalysisEpistemologyPsychologyPhilosophyGender studiesLiteratureArt

Abstract

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When asked by his mother what to do about her dying father, the author finds himself in an aporia. Utilizing a broad range of rhetorical and ethical touch-stones, the author uses autoethnography to explore the phenomenon of communication ethics as it occurs in everyday experience. The essay privileges lived experience as central to what it means to be human. The call of conscience, the life-giving gift of acknowledgment, human struggle, and the use of communication to navigate aporias are all explored. Though his grandfather dies, the author comes to realize that even in death his grandfather is acknowledged as a life and continues to give life. The narrative demonstrates autoethnography's usefulness in understanding phenomenological experiences and the veracity of communication ethics in lived experience.

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How this classification was reachedexpand

Full frame machine prediction

Teacher imitation

Not 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.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.001
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.004
Version: metacan-v3-hybrid-931329e0061cValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesnone
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Qualitative · Consensus signal: none
GenreCandidate signal: Empirical · Consensus signal: none
Teacher disagreement score0.076
Threshold uncertainty score0.255

Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0010.004
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0000.000
Bibliometrics0.0010.000
Science and technology studies0.0050.002
Scholarly communication0.0040.002
Open science0.0010.003
Research integrity0.0020.004
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0760.024

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 head0.311
GPT teacher head0.394
Teacher spread0.083 · 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 source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.

The models applied no category: nothing in the taxonomy fit this work.
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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Published2008
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