Historical Underdosing: Pop Demography and the Crisis in Canadian History
Bibliographic record
Abstract
This paper seeks to problematize the crisis in Canadian history by appeal to three related arguments. The first is that history has largely ceased to inform Canadians’ lives, not because of the failure of institutions, but because of the cultural transformation of their understanding of the past occasioned by new media andespecially by new ideas about how the past is organized. My second claim is that, along with free markets and small government, so-called neo-conservative ideologues in Canada have sought, deliberately if not systematically, to appropriate Canadian history and to deploy it in support of their contemporary political agenda. My third agrument is that this neo-conservative recasting of Canadians’ sense of their own history has been abetted by a powerful new literature I call pop demography , which banishes older notions of the historical past as a coherent, life-informing narrative in favour of a new, market-based interpretation in which the essential component is the generational cohort and the essential historical dynamic is generational competition. Abstract: Cet article cherche a cerner la problematique de la crise qui sevit dans ľhistorie canadienne en invoquant trois arguments connexes. Le premier est que ľhistoire a largement cesse de guider la vie des Canadiens, non pas en raison ďun echec des institutions, mais parce que la facon dont elle se comprenait dans le passe a subi une transformation culturelle causee par les nouveaux medias et surtout les nouvelles idees sur le mode ďorganisation du passe. Notre second argument est que, de meme que les marches libres et le gouvernement restreint, ceux qưon appelle au Canada les ideologues neo-conservateurs ont cherche, de facon deliberee sinon systematique, a s’approprier ľhistoire canadienne et a la deployer pour soutenir leur programme politique de ľheure. Le troisieme argument est que cette refonte neo-conservatrice du sens que les Canadiens ont de leur propre histoire a ete favorisee par une nouvelle documentation influente que j’appellerais la demographie pop , qui rejette completement les vieux concepts voyant dans le passe historique un discours coherent, eclairant la vie, en faveur ďune nouvelle interpretation axee sur les forces du marche dans laquelle ľelement principal est la cohorte des generations et la dynamique historique principale est la competition entre ces generations.
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How this classification was reachedexpand
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 | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.024 | 0.002 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| 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 itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one teacher head, 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".