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Record W3084767512 · doi:10.1136/bmj.m3581

Canadian court says wife cannot block husband’s medically assisted death

2020· article· en· W3084767512 on OpenAlexaboutno aff
Owen Dyer

Bibliographic record

VenueBMJ · 2020
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldSocial Sciences
TopicConflict of Laws and Jurisdiction
Canadian institutionsnot available
Fundersnot available
KeywordsWifeBlock (permutation group theory)MedicineComputer scienceLawPolitical scienceCombinatoricsMathematics

Abstract

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A Nova Scotia man is free to seek a medically assisted death in the next few days after the province’s Court of Appeal refused to extend a temporary injunction granted to his wife, who claimed that he was exaggerating his illness and did not qualify.1 The case, which has led the anonymous couple to separate after a marriage of nearly 50 years, comes as Canada’s assisted dying law is in a state of flux. The country’s Supreme Court has declared the current law overly restrictive in that it requires two doctors to certify that the patient faces a “reasonably foreseeable” death from a condition, as well as unbearable suffering. The government has promised to legislate to remove the foreseeable death requirement, but it has …

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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)0.006
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: Not applicable
GenreCandidate signal: Commentary · Consensus signal: none
Teacher disagreement score0.028
Threshold uncertainty score0.201

Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0010.006
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0000.000
Bibliometrics0.0000.000
Science and technology studies0.0210.003
Scholarly communication0.0030.001
Open science0.0010.002
Research integrity0.0070.007
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0140.001

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 head0.049
GPT teacher head0.326
Teacher spread0.277 · 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
GenreCommentary

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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Published2020
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