A Toroidal Representation of Intelligence from a Plains Cree Lens: A Bridge Toward Enlightenment
Bibliographic record
Abstract
An indigenous cultural perspective relating to the perceptions, insights, and concepts of human intelligence was revealed through the voices of 13 participating Elders representing nine bands of Plains Cree First Nations in a study located in Saskatchewan, Canada (Frey, 2016). The ideologies of human intelligence have historically been primarily predominated by Western academic research. In general, the ideas of indigenous groups regarding their concepts of intelligence remain much less mainstream, with most research lacking indigenous epistemology, axiology, and indigenous research methodologies (Chilisa, 2012). In an effort to generate a broader more inclusive perspective of human intelligence by introducing Plains Cree concepts, this study utilized an integrated methodology consisting of Western phenomenology and indigenous research methods. The integrated design provided a unique scaffolding that served to enrich both Western academic and indigenous standards (Frey, 2016). Its purpose was and continues to be understanding.
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame machine prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.
Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.003 | 0.003 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.002 | 0.002 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.008 | 0.030 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.008 | 0.009 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.007 |
| Research integrity | 0.001 | 0.003 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.005 | 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 source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), 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".