Physical activity of Canadian and American children: a focus on youth in Amish, Mennonite, and modern cultures
Bibliographic record
Abstract
Childhood obesity is an urgent public health problem in North America and throughout most of the industrialized world. Diminishing levels of physical activity and the growth of sedentary pursuits may be contributing to the obesity epidemic. The advent of modern technological societies has brought about dramatic changes in lifestyle over the past century. To gain insights into physical activity levels in pre-industrial era societies, researchers have turned to studying religious groups that have resisted the lure of technological change. Children in Old Order Amish and Old Order Mennonite communities of North America have a lifestyle that still involves walking to school and friends' homes, performing chores, caring for farm animals, and active play. Research has shown that Amish and Mennonite children have higher levels of physical activity than modern-living children, despite less participation in organized competitive sports. As a result, Amish and Mennonite children tend to be leaner than their counterparts in contemporary society. Studying non-mainstream cultures can provide a valuable perspective on human behaviors.
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How this classification was reachedexpand
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 | 0.000 | 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) | 0.000 | 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 itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one teacher head, 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".