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Record W2111897760 · doi:10.1177/0014524611431774

The Biblical Tale of Two Scouts

2012· article· en· W2111897760 on OpenAlexaff
B. Ward Powers

Bibliographic record

VenueThe Expository Times · 2012
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldSocial Sciences
TopicJewish and Middle Eastern Studies
Canadian institutionsTyndale University
Fundersnot available
KeywordsBoy ScoutsPossession (linguistics)PessimismHistoryMedia studiesGenealogySociologyTheologyPhilosophyArchaeology

Abstract

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Twelve scouts sent out by Moses surveyed the land. What happened next is frequently misread by people, even by Bible teachers, as being that ten scouts brought back a pessimistic report, “We can’t defeat these people”, while two of them, Joshua and Caleb, urged, “We can do it.” But this is to misread the text, and to miss a significant point in the story: for the record informs us that eleven (not ten) brought the negative report. There was only one, Caleb, who said, “With God’s help, we can take possession of the land.” However, overnight one man, Joshua, changed his mind - and that man subsequently came to play a crucial role as Israel’s leader.

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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)0.000
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.003
Version: metacan-v3-hybrid-931329e0061cValidation 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: Other · Consensus signal: Other
Teacher disagreement score0.019
Threshold uncertainty score0.064

Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0000.003
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0010.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0000.000
Bibliometrics0.0010.001
Science and technology studies0.0090.004
Scholarly communication0.0030.001
Open science0.0000.001
Research integrity0.0010.003
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0190.002

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 head0.025
GPT teacher head0.308
Teacher spread0.282 · 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 designNot applicable
Domainnot available
GenreOther

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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