Who are the zombie masters, and what do they want?
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Bibliographic record
Abstract
This is one in a series of articles by the authors about the ongoing debate over user charges in the Canadian health care system. In this paper we examine the "zombie-masters", those people and organizations who have consistently revived and promoted the idea that user charges will help meet a number of important social policy objectives, despite the fact that such charges have been repeatedly rejected by policy-makers and the general public (and the claims of their supporters refuted by analyses of the effects of such charges). We attempt to analyze their behaviour and motivations; in so doing, we identify a number of distinct groups and find that they seem motivated largely by the expectation that they, or the people they represent, will benefit in some way from the (re-) introduction of user charges.
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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 | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| 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 it