Limited and Limiting Conversations about the Poor: Elizabethan Prescriptions to Poverty in the Canadian Press
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Abstract
I In recent years, globalization has gone hand in hand with government de-regulation, resulting in an erosion of the hard-won social contract between Canadians and their government. Canadians have witnessed the dismantling of the welfare state and a gradual decline in social entitlements. Homelessness and food bank use have dramatically increased, while income security and minimum wage rates have steadily eroded due to inflation. This study of 193 news texts about poverty published in 13 Canadian newspapers in 2012 found evidence of the prominence of established and emerging poverty discourses that blame poor people for their plight or cast them in a negative light. Keywords : Poverty; inequality; content analysis; critical discourse analysis; media Resume Ces dernieres annees, la mondialisation est allee de pair avec la dereglementation gouvernementale, entrainant une erosion du contrat social, durement acquis, entre les Canadiens et Canadiennes et leur gouvernement. Le peuple canadien a assiste au demantelement de l'Etat providence, et le declin graduel des droits sociaux. L'itinerance et l'utilisation des banques alimentaires ont augmente de facon spectaculaire, en meme temps que la securite du revenu et les taux du salaire minimum ont graduellement erode en raison de l'inflation. Cette etude de 193 textes des nouvelles sur la pauvrete, publies dans 13 journaux canadiens en 2012 a permis d'etablir l'importance de discours, etablis et emergent, sur la pauvrete, qui blâme les personnes pauvres pour leur situation, ou qui les presentent dans un optique negatif. Mots cles: Pauvrete; inegalite; analyse de contenu; analyse critique du discours; media
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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 | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.002 | 0.000 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 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".