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Record W2502291013 · doi:10.1057/9781137065995_6

The Last Resource: Witnessing the Cannibal Scene

2012· book-chapter· en· W2502291013 on OpenAlexaboutno aff
Heather Davis-Fisch

Bibliographic record

VenuePalgrave Macmillan US eBooks · 2012
Typebook-chapter
Languageen
FieldSocial Sciences
TopicGothic Literature and Media Analysis
Canadian institutionsnot available
Fundersnot available
KeywordsHistoryAngerOutrageNewspaperNarrativeCriticismSadnessLiteratureGenealogyArtLawMedia studiesPsychologySociologyPolitical scienceSocial psychology

Abstract

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In October 1854, Dr. John Rae returned from the Arctic telling the chilling story that members of the Franklin expedition had resorted to cannibalism in their final days, mutilating the bodies of their dead companions and cooking their remains in kettles. The story, which Rae heard from Inuit who had been passing it along for at least four years, generated anger and sadness among the missing men's families, heated denials and awkward compensatory narratives in daily newspapers, and hysterical racist invectives in Charles Dickens's weekly periodical Household Words. Public responses to Rae's report included anger with the Admiralty for not investigating the King William Island area earlier, criticism of Rae for returning home rather than traveling to the area himself, and logistical questions concerning how the ships had been lost and the primary causes of death. In general, the public accepted that Franklin and his men were long dead, in large part because Rae had returned with personal artifacts that undoubtedly belonged to the missing men. The allegations of cannibalism, however, lead many to question whether Inuit were trustworthy witnesses and whether they accurately understood the remains they found.

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How this classification was reachedexpand

Full frame distilled prediction

Teacher imitation

Not 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.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.002
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.000
Version: codex-gemma-dda1882f352aValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesScience and technology studies
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Theoretical or conceptual · Consensus signal: none
GenreCandidate signal: Other · Consensus signal: none
Teacher disagreement score0.895
Threshold uncertainty score0.999

Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0020.000
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0000.000
Bibliometrics0.0000.000
Science and technology studies0.0030.002
Scholarly communication0.0000.000
Open science0.0010.000
Research integrity0.0010.001
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0000.000

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.

Opus teacher head0.019
GPT teacher head0.262
Teacher spread0.243 · 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 teacher head, not a consensus.

Study designTheoretical or conceptual
Domainnot available
GenreOther

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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