Bibliographic record
Abstract
Dr Leighton passed away quietly on August 11,2007, at his home in Nova Scotia, shortly after his 99th birthday. Born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, he came to Nova Scotia with his parents for the first time in 1916, at the age of 8. This visit began an enduring relationship with Nova Scotia, where he made a lasting contribution to medical research and public health. He showed early interest in exploring the landscape, in the beauty of the province, and in its natural history. Alex studied biology at Princeton University. He was particularly interested in animal behaviour and received his AB in 1932. He then went to Cambridge University for premedical studies, earning his MA in 1934, after which he proceeded to Johns Hopkins University, where he received his MD in 1936. This was followed by internship and residency in psychiatry at Johns Hopkins, where he was strongly influenced by Adolf Meyer. While there, he was granted a Social Science Research Fellowship sponsored by Columbia University, which allowed him to carry out fieldwork among the Navaho and the Yup'ik of St Lawrence Island. In 1941, he joined the US Navy Medical Corps, where he remained until 1946, leaving with the rank of Commander. During that time, he conducted studies among relocated Japanese-Americans in Arizona and became a member of the Office of War Information as well as leader of the Post-War Strategic Bombing Survey in Japan, which analyzed the impact of the atomic bomb on Japanese civilians. In 1946, he was appointed Professor in the Department of Sociology and Anthropology at Cornell University, an appointment he held until 1966. In 1948, he initiated the first of the postwar studies of the distribution and amount of mental illness in a general population. Named the County Study, this investigation concerns an area in Atlantic Canada and is now directed by his wife, Dr Jane Murphy. One of the first findings was that about 1 in 5 adults suffers from some sort of mental illness at any given time, with the most common being illnesses that involve depression, anxiety, and alcohol abuse. Concerned to see whether other areas would show similar findings, Dr Leighton and Dr Murphy carried out several similar studies in other settings, such as New York City, Alaska, Nigeria, and Vietnam. Follow-ups to the Stirling County studies are still being conducted today, actively led by Dr Murphy. These studies have a theoretical framework that integrates somatic, psychological, and cultural components. A feature of Alex's career was his ability to strike a balance between fundamental research and applied programs. For example, he directed the Cornell Program in Social Psychiatry, amalgamating the separate Midtown and Stirling County projects. This was followed by his appointment as Professor of Social Psychiatry and Head of the Department of Behavioral Sciences at the Harvard School of Public Health, posts he held until 1975. Following this, he was for 10 years a Canadian National Health Scientist in the Department of Psychiatry at Dalhousie University. …
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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 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.002 | 0.000 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| 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 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".