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The Hidden Politics of Telethons

2015· book-chapter· en· W2506581562 on OpenAlex

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Bibliographic record

Venuenot available
Typebook-chapter
Languageen
FieldArts and Humanities
TopicHistory of Emotions Research
Canadian institutionsnot available
Fundersnot available
KeywordsPoliticsPolitical scienceLaw

Abstract

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Abstract Telethon-producing charities played an important role in setting American agendas related to morals, attitudes, and policies regarding health and welfare. Contrasting the United States to Western Europe and Canada, they proclaimed private charity and voluntary giving as “the American way” that met, and even exceeded, average Americans’ health-care needs. They simultaneously lobbied for government funding of medical research, treatments, and rehabilitation, while participating in a related political process-the ongoing debate over the proper mix of private and public means of addressing social needs. Via their telecasts, corporate sponsors were able to propagate agendas in an allegedly neutral, commercial-free environment. Not only did telethons help disguise and detract from the political decisions and policy choices that structured the US health-care system and corporate self-interest, as revealed by the examples of the snowmobile and nursing home industries, they helped repair tarnished public images of private corporations.

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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)0.000
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.000
Version: codex-gemma-dda1882f352aValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesInsufficient payload (model declined to judge)
Consensus categoriesInsufficient payload (model declined to judge)
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Not applicable · Consensus signal: none
GenreCandidate signal: Other · Consensus signal: Other
Teacher disagreement score0.551
Threshold uncertainty score0.999

Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0000.000
Bibliometrics0.0000.000
Science and technology studies0.0000.001
Scholarly communication0.0000.000
Open science0.0000.000
Research integrity0.0000.000
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0190.001

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 head0.177
GPT teacher head0.303
Teacher spread0.125 · 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

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