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Record W2904510715 · doi:10.4324/9781351172004-6

Bricks for Empire Building

2018· book-chapter· en· W2904510715 on OpenAlexaboutno aff
Philip Bean, Joy Melville

Bibliographic record

Venuenot available
Typebook-chapter
Languageen
FieldArts and Humanities
TopicArchitecture and Cultural Influences
Canadian institutionsnot available
Fundersnot available
KeywordsEmpireHistoryAncient history

Abstract

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In the nineteenth century, child migrants were shipped off for ostensibly philanthropic reasons, to protect them from the evils of their environment in Britain. But in the twentieth century, philanthropy took second place to unadulterated imperialism. Child migrants were thought of as "Bricks for Empire Building". The main reason for this was the Boer War in South Africa which ended in 1902. The idea of farm schools was by no means new; Barnardo had built one in Russell, Manitoba, many years earlier. One of their major disadvantages was that they were all set in the open countryside, isolated from people. Children, faced with their new surroundings usually in the middle of nowhere, were often totally bewildered. Fairbridge stressed that the farm schools were no charitable undertaking but an "imperial investment". There would therefore be no shame in being a pauper, every child would be proud to be representing England.

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How this classification was reachedexpand

Full frame machine prediction

Teacher imitation

Not 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.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.001
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.001
Version: metacan-v3-hybrid-931329e0061cValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesnone
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Not applicable · Consensus signal: none
GenreCandidate signal: Other · Consensus signal: Other
Teacher disagreement score0.052
Threshold uncertainty score0.175

Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0010.001
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0010.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0000.000
Bibliometrics0.0020.001
Science and technology studies0.0050.005
Scholarly communication0.0050.004
Open science0.0010.004
Research integrity0.0020.004
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0520.014

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 head0.064
GPT teacher head0.264
Teacher spread0.200 · 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

Classification

machine, unvalidated

Machine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.

The models applied no category: nothing in the taxonomy fit this work.
Study designNot applicable
Domainnot available
GenreOther

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".

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