Spiderman is Not for Babies (Peter, 4 years): The “Boys and Reading Problem” from the Perspective of the Boys Themselves
Bibliographic record
Abstract
Interviews were conducted with 43 Canadian boys, ages 4 to 12 years. The boys’ personal collections of reading and information materials were inventoried. Results indicate that boys are reading but their preferred reading materials (e.g., non-fiction, comic books, game manuals) are not those usually privileged by teachers, librarians and parents.Des entrevues ont été menées auprès de 43 garçons canadiens, âgés de 4 à 12 ans. Les collections personnelles de matériel de lecture et d’information ont été inventoriées. Les résultats indiquent que les garçons lisent, mais aussi que le matériel de lecture qu’ils préfèrent (i.e. non-fiction bandes dessinées, manuels de jeux) ne correspond pas au matériel habituellement privilégié par les professeurs, les bibliothécaires et les parents.
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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 | 0.009 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.000 | 0.004 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.002 | 0.004 |
| Open science | 0.002 | 0.001 |
| 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".