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Record W1998255442 · doi:10.1136/bmj.324.7344.990

Confronting the small arms pandemic

2002· editorial· en· W1998255442 on OpenAlexaboutno aff
Neil Arya

Bibliographic record

VenueBMJ · 2002
Typeeditorial
Languageen
FieldSocial Sciences
TopicGun Ownership and Violence Research
Canadian institutionsnot available
Fundersnot available
KeywordsWitnessPossession (linguistics)DemographySuicide preventionInjury preventionPoison controlMortality ratePandemicEthnic groupEpidemiologyGeographyCriminologyCoronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19)MedicinePolitical scienceEnvironmental healthLawPsychologySociology

Abstract

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Physicians throughout the world bear witness to the terrible consequences of small arms. But do we truly understand the impact and the epidemiology of the small arms pandemic, and can we devise effective strategies for prevention as we have for other major public health issues? The capacity for collecting consistent, reliable, and relevant data is limited by various cultural, economic, infrastructural, and logistic factors even in developed countries not at war. Nevertheless, we have some solid data on the size of the problem and indicators suggestive of possible solutions. The United States, for instance, has over 28 000 deaths a year from small arms—accidents, suicides, and homicides—the highest rate in the developed world.1 In that country firearms are the leading cause of death among 15-24 year olds, slightly ahead of vehicle crashes, and the third leading cause of death in those aged under 15.2 While the US murder rate without guns is roughly equivalent to that of Canada (1.3 times), its murder rate with handguns is 15 times the Canadian rate.3 Countries with similar cultural, economic, and ethnic make up but with different gun possession rates also have widely differing firearm death rates, roughly correlating with the percentage of households with guns.4 For example, …

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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)0.005
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.005
Version: codex-gemma-dda1882f352aValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesnone
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Not applicable · Consensus signal: Not applicable
GenreCandidate signal: Editorial · Consensus signal: Editorial
Teacher disagreement score0.038
Threshold uncertainty score0.810

Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0050.005
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0000.000
Bibliometrics0.0000.000
Science and technology studies0.0010.000
Scholarly communication0.0000.000
Open science0.0010.000
Research integrity0.0010.001
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0010.001

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 head0.106
GPT teacher head0.411
Teacher spread0.305 · 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.

The models applied no category: nothing in the taxonomy fit this work.
Study designNot applicable
Domainnot available
GenreEditorial

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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Published2002
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