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Record W2475604369 · doi:10.1057/9781137415608_5

Smoke-Free Cars: Placing Children’s Emotions

2015· book-chapter· en· W2475604369 on OpenAlexaboutno aff
Damian Collins, Morgan Tymko

Bibliographic record

VenuePalgrave Macmillan UK eBooks · 2015
Typebook-chapter
Languageen
FieldHealth Professions
TopicHomelessness and Social Issues
Canadian institutionsnot available
Fundersnot available
KeywordsLegislatorMindsetPolitical scienceEnforcementHouse of CommonsCommonsLawGovernment (linguistics)Private spaceLaw and economicsPsychologySociologyLegislationPoliticsParliament

Abstract

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In February 2014, MPs in the UK House of Commons voted in favour of a law making it an offence to expose children to tobacco smoke in private vehicles. This decision followed the adoption of similar rules in five other countries, as well as six US states, nine Canadian provinces and every state of Australia. While increasingly widespread, this policy initiative remains controversial. In the UK, the House of Commons vote was framed as a choice between supporting the measure in order to protect children’s health and rejecting it as practically and philosophically problematic (Mason, 2014). Perceived practical difficulties centred on anticipated problems with enforcement, while philosophical objections focused on the ban’s encroachment into private space and attempt to compel behavioural change. One MP, Claire Perry, represented the choice in terms of a conflict between emotion and reason: ‘Heart says “ban it”, head says “unenforceable bad law”’ (Mason, 2014). While providing succinct insight into one legislator’s mindset, this comment also reproduced a binary distinction between emotion and reason — something that has long informed efforts to ‘banish’ the former from public life (Williams, 2001). Specifically, it presented the protection of children’s health against the risks of exposure to secondhand smoke (SHS) as a principally emotional issue — in contrast to the rational public policy concern for enforceability, a requirement of ‘good law’. These keywords were added by machine and not by the authors. This process is experimental and the keywords may be updated as the learning algorithm improves.

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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)0.003
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.006
Version: metacan-v3-hybrid-931329e0061cValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesnone
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Qualitative · Consensus signal: Qualitative
GenreCandidate signal: Empirical · Consensus signal: Empirical
Teacher disagreement score0.037
Threshold uncertainty score0.073

Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0030.006
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0000.001
Bibliometrics0.0010.001
Science and technology studies0.0060.013
Scholarly communication0.0090.004
Open science0.0010.007
Research integrity0.0030.007
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0080.001

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 head0.076
GPT teacher head0.354
Teacher spread0.279 · 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 designQualitative
Domainnot available
GenreEmpirical

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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