Why this work is in the frame
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Bibliographic record
Abstract
Population growth increases pressure on the environment. Immigration may be harmful to the environment because it is the major force of population growth in the United States. However, this argument has not been supported by research findings. A few studies on this topic show that locations with higher numbers of immigrants experience better air quality than locations with greater proportions of U.S.-born residents. This research investigated the environmental impact of immigration through three independent studies. First, I tested the relationship between U.S.-born population, foreign-born population, and air quality across all the U.S. continental counties. This study analyzed the air quality data extracted from the Environmental Quality Index (EQI) provided by the Environmental Protection Agency's (EPA). The results showed that U.S.-born population was associated with worse air quality, while foreign-born population was associated with better air quality. These associations varied by immigrants’ origin and year of entry. Second, I examined the association between populations and air quality across some contiguous U.S. counties over eight years from 2007 to 2014, using the EPA’s Air Quality Index (AQI). I found that total population, U.S.-born population, and foreign-born population were not associated with worse but better air quality. The results indicated that population may not be the root cause of environmental harm. Third, I explored the differential associations between populations and the environment through interviews with Chinese immigrants, Mexican immigrants, and U.S.-born Whites regarding their household environmental behaviors. The research found different environmental behaviors among the three groups. The immigrants tended to use less energy, drive less, and produce less waste. The study suggests that culture has an influence on environmental sustainability.
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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 | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| 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