All the Lonely People: Social Isolation and the Promise and Pitfalls of Leisure
Why this work is in the frame
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Bibliographic record
Abstract
Maintaining meaningful social connections boosts health in amazing ways. Even so, social isolation pervades disturbingly in contemporary society. Because of its harmful consequences, social isolation represents one of the most serious social problems of our time, ironically in an age when connecting with others seems easy. Nevertheless, leisure studies remains quiet on this matter. If our field aims to enhance its social relevance, I argue it needs to focus more attention on the issue of social isolation. With this in mind, the purpose of this contribution to the 40th anniversary issue of Leisure Sciences is to position social isolation as an important topic in our field and to offer directions for future research. To these ends, this manuscript looks back at what we know about leisure and its implications for social isolation and looks forward to relevant questions aimed at driving the next generation of impactful leisure research.
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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 | 0.002 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.001 | 0.003 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 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 it