“Only Send Boys of the Good Type”: Child Migration and the Boy Scout Movement, 1921-1959
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Bibliographic record
Abstract
Between 1921 and 1959, nearly five thousand British youths were sent abroad, mainly to the dominions of Australia, Canada, and New Zealand, under the auspices of the Boy Scout movement. This article argues that the imperial ideal which underpinned the migration program consisted of three main tenets: first, that the empire was a mutually beneficial partnership; second, that the future success of the empire depended on the leadership of the white dominions; and third, that the imperial vision relied on the myth of the frontier, which inspired thousands of youths to migrate even in the face of harsh economic realities. This vision was a powerful motivator which informed the actions of both the youths and the administrators of the movement for four decades.
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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 | 0.005 | 0.001 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.001 | 0.003 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.002 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| 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 it