ALICE IN MENOPAUSELAND: THE JABBERWOCKY OF A MEDICALIZED MIDDLE AGE
Bibliographic record
Abstract
Active living is being advanced in the scientific literature as an essential and effective resource to sustained health and vitality in middle-aged women, with potent benefits to biological, social, and emotional health. At the same time, menopausal women are being counseled that hormone replacement therapy (HRT) is the treatment of choice for combating symptoms and diseases that accompany female aging. Assisted by the writing of Lewis Carroll, here we gaze "through the looking glass" on women's health choices as they are relayed through current medical practice. By exploring the jabberwocky of communications experienced by women as they consider the best pathway to late life health, we show that active living is a worthy alternative--potent for health promotion, broader than hormones in its benefits, and is the more empowering and ethical route for women's long-term health.
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame machine prediction
Teacher imitationNot 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.
Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.001 | 0.003 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.001 | 0.002 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.002 | 0.002 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.003 | 0.005 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.002 |
| Research integrity | 0.003 | 0.003 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.007 | 0.002 |
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.
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 source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), 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".