Sterilization in Alberta, 1928 to 1972: Gender Matters<sup>*</sup>
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Abstract
En 1928, la province canadienne de l'Alberta a adopté une loi sur la stérilisation sexuelle et, jusqu'à son abrogation en 1972, plus de 2,800 personnes ont été stérilisées. De ce nombre, les femmes ont été surreprésentées. Cet article examine comment des regards changeants portés sur l'eugénique ont conduit à une transformation subtile d'où a émergé un système à deux volets qui a ciblé des hommes ayant une déficience mentale, souvent un danger pour la société, et des femmes normales du point de vue mental mais anormales moralement qui ont accepté la stérilisation. Le geste s'est avéré un succès en ce qui concerne le type et le nombre de personnes stérilisées, et la pérennité du programme. Alberta, Canada, passed a Sexual Sterilization Act in 1928 and up until its repeal in 1972, over 2,800 people were sterilized. Women were overrepresented in the number of sterilizations performed. This paper explores how changing understandings of eugenics led to a subtle transformation which resulted in a “two‐pronged” system that targeted mentally defective men, often a danger to society, and mentally normal but morally abnormal women who consented to sterilization. The end result was success for the movement in terms of the types and numbers of people sterilized, and in the longevity of the program.
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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 | 0.002 | 0.002 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.001 | 0.005 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.009 | 0.001 |
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.
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