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Record W2018787554 · doi:10.3138/tjt.23.2.109

Simply "Christian": Canada's Newest Major Religious Denomination

2007· article· en· W2018787554 on OpenAlexvenueaboutno aff
Brian Clarke

Bibliographic record

VenueToronto Journal of Theology · 2007
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldSocial Sciences
TopicReligion and Society Interactions
Canadian institutionsnot available
Fundersnot available
KeywordsCensusHistoryReligious studiesSociologyLawPolitical scienceDemographyPhilosophyPopulation

Abstract

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Statistics Canada's release in May of 2003 of the religion data for the 2001 census generated a flurry of media coverage. Among the leading stories was one on the number of Canadians who claimed to be Jedi Knights (some 20,000 in all). And the rise of those claiming No Religion (from 12.5 % in 1991 to 16.2% in 2001) attracted much cominentary. All but one observer, Joe Couto, a columnist with Christian Week, missed a startling new development. What Statistics Canada classifies as "Christians not included elsewhere" or "Christians n.i.e." had risen, in Couto's words, to "an eye popping" level. Some 780,400 Canadians are now included in this category. If these people constituted a denomination, they would represent the fifth largest denomination in the country. And, in Couto's view, this trend is a reflection that many "may be turned off by 'traditional' church groups."

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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)0.002
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: Empirical
Teacher disagreement score0.027
Threshold uncertainty score0.197

Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0010.002
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0000.000
Bibliometrics0.0010.003
Science and technology studies0.0110.002
Scholarly communication0.0030.001
Open science0.0010.001
Research integrity0.0000.001
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0110.001

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 head0.009
GPT teacher head0.305
Teacher spread0.296 · 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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Published2007
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