Bibliographic record
Abstract
Our life is shaped by our mind;we become what we thinkThe Dhammapada e United States' relationship with higher education has always been a stormy love affair.On the one hand, most people recognize and even extol the value of education, primarily because of its practical application as a means to better paying jobs.On the other hand, people in this country tend to be suspicious of highly-educated individuals, especially academics, often disparaging them as naively inexperienced and philosophically removed from the real world; thus leading to resistance of theoretical work in general, whether in the physical or the social sciences.Post-secondary education in the United States is, in fact, not of primary interest to most of the population; only twentysix percent of the population has a minimum of a bachelor's degree.It will therefore come as no surprise that those same attitudes of the population at large extend to the men and women in this country's prisons and to the individuals charged with keeping them there.Unfortunately for everyone involved, including the free electorate, the advantages of higher education as both a management tool and a prophylactic device to preclude further criminal behavior are often ignored for more pernicious reasons than casual ignorance.Y¥hen I first entered FI01ida's prison system in 1974, an extensive junior college (two year) program was in place, established and maintained by Lake City Community College.Prisoners could take as many as four classes each semester on the way to either of two associate's degrees, paying for our education with veteran's benefits or federal assistance, which contrary to later claims, did not deprive free citizens of educational opportunities.I At the same time, the prison staff received reduced tuition rates at the same college for classes at the campus in Lake City, and were also encouraged to attend the University of Florida in nearby Gainesville, where they could take up to six credits per semester at state expense.The men inside prison stood in line to TIle Basic Education Opporttmity Grant later became the Pell Grant and paid for both tuition and books.In 1994, prisoners were excluded from qualifying for the Pell Grant (Taylor, 1998).
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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 | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.002 | 0.001 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.002 |
| Research integrity | 0.001 | 0.002 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.098 | 0.020 |
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".