Bibliographic record
Abstract
Introduction On Thursday, February 1, 2001, Carol Anne Letheren was speaking to an alumni group of the Schulich School of Business, of York University, Toronto. She had begun her speech with her usual enthusiasm, following a full day of work. Part way through the session her voice began to slow and slur, she began to slump to the floor and was quickly rushed to the hospital where she was given treatment but to no avail. She passed away the following day, February 2, 2001 at the age of fifty-eight. (1) Her untimely and sudden death brought an end to one of Canada's most successful and prominent female figures in the sports world. Carol Anne Letheren spent a major share of her life creating a voice for women in what had been a traditional male domain. Her career was a truly remarkable story of a life devoted to Early Life and Education Carol Anne Letheren was born in Owen Sound, Ontario, July 27, 1942, to an unwed mother and immediately put up for adoption. By good fortune, she was adopted very quickly by a loving family (Wood) in Guelph, Ontario. Carol Anne Wood attended Guelph Collegiate Institute and was immediately involved in many school activities and sports. Subsequently, she developed a lifelong passion for a variety of sports, including, badminton, volleyball, gymnastics and synchronized swimming and running. Clearly, her career path was established early and her dedication to sport led to a lifelong career that carried her to the very peak of a variety of domestic and international sport organizations, unquestionably, becoming one of the most important figures in the Canadian sports world. By her own admission, sports were at the centre of her school experiences. an address to a women's group in Calgary, she mentioned that the year 2000 marked the anniversary of women's participation in the Olympic Games, but went on to mention her passion for sport during her elementary and high school years. She pointed out that she climbed fences in order to play tennis at her boyfriend's club. During her high school and university years she had a passion for music, history, and languages, but in her own written words commented, In fact, I believe, in fact, I know, I enjoyed school a lot and it was because of sport. the same address, she went on to say that Sport has been and is my social centre; my hobby; my most cherished moments of achievement; my most profound teacher. (2) the same address, Letheren went on to elaborate some of the lessons she had learned from These included such things as commitment to team, dedication to others, receiving from others, work ethic, an understanding of making decisions quickly under pressure, and bias, its application and consequences. (3) On the other hand she maintained an interest in other pursuits as well as a short article she had written prior to her death, published in The Reader's Digest following her death, Carol Anne commented on her first job, at sixteen years of age. Here she mentioned the lessons she gained from working a night shift as a candy striper at the Homewood Sanitarium in her hometown of Guelph, Ontario. Carol Anne was deeply impressed by the nurses who exhibited a great deal of compassion and patience with individuals suffering from drug withdrawals. As she phrased it, In my subsequent careers as a business person, university professor and administrator, I have put my Homewood experience to good use. To understand others I put myself in their place--something I learned on my job. (4) Following high school, Letheren entered the University of Toronto and graduated with a B.Ph.E. degree in 1963. She was then appointed to the faculty at the U of T. During her tenure at the U of T Carol Anne continued her education and received her B.A. in 1969 with specialization in psychology and anthropology. 1970 she accepted a teaching position at York University, and again continued her pursuit of education earning an MBA from York in 1977. …
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How this classification was reachedexpand
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 | 0.005 | 0.001 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| 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 itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one teacher head, 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".