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Record W2284698662 · doi:10.18275/pbe-v027-008

The Folly of Looking Only in the Mirror

2009· article· en· W2284698662 on OpenAlexaboutno aff
Ashley Pritchard

Bibliographic record

Venuenot available
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldSocial Sciences
TopicIsland Studies and Pacific Affairs
Canadian institutionsnot available
Fundersnot available
KeywordsImmigrationImmigration policyXenophobiaSettlement (finance)PopulationUnintended consequencesPolitical scienceDevelopment economicsNet migration ratePacific islandersPolitical economyPopulation growthEconomicsSociologyLawDemography

Abstract

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New Zealand’s immigration policy has undergone important changes in the past several years. The 1990s saw short-lived surges amounting to the highest net migration gains in over one hundred years (the so-called “Asian invasion” of the mid-1990s), some of the highest net migration losses of New Zealanders on record (the oft-noted “brain drain” of the late 1990s), and belated recognition that much of what is called “permanent and long-term migration” is not, in fact, permanent or long-term at all. (Bedford et al., p. 1) New Zealand’s future economic success is uncertain because it lacks within its current population some of the labor and technological skills needed to sustain economic growth. It is necessary, then, that it maintain an immigration policy that works to import these skills, logically from its skilled neighbors: Asians and Pacific Islanders. New Zealand has been and continues to be largely accepting of peoples from the United Kingdom, the United States, and Canada. However, New Zealand remains constantly uninviting to the “others” — its Asian neighbors — despite the considerable skills that they possess. Even though its immigration policies and initiatives have changed to no longer prohibit Asian immigration, attitudes toward settlement have not. It is because of this latent xenophobia that New Zealand’s immigration policy is arguably the country’s most contentious social issue. Each shift in policy has been met with harsh anti-immigration backlash and debate. (Grbic, p. 1) In fact, the unintended consequence of two immigration THE FOLLY OF LOOKING ONLY IN THE MIRROR Ashley E. Pritchard 1

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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)0.004
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.016
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: Commentary · Consensus signal: Commentary
Teacher disagreement score0.041
Threshold uncertainty score0.138

Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0040.016
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0010.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0010.000
Bibliometrics0.0010.001
Science and technology studies0.0090.016
Scholarly communication0.0130.026
Open science0.0010.006
Research integrity0.0050.014
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0410.018

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 head0.016
GPT teacher head0.306
Teacher spread0.290 · 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
GenreCommentary

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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