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Record W4211001722 · doi:10.1353/bcc.0.1238

Thumb and the Bad Guy (review)

2009· article· en· W4211001722 on OpenAlex
Deborah Stevenson

Why this work is in the frame

A frame that forgets how it found something cannot be audited. These are the routes that admitted this work.

aboutThe title or abstract carries a Canadian signal from the geographic lexicon.
no affNo Canadian affiliation: this work is invisible to an affiliation-only frame.
No Canadian affiliation. An affiliation-only frame, the usual design, would never have seen this work. It is one of the works that make the case for inverting the frame.

Bibliographic record

VenueBulletin of the Center for Children's Books./Bulletin of the Center for Children's Books · 2009
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldSocial Sciences
TopicAustralian History and Society
Canadian institutionsnot available
Fundersnot available
KeywordsArt historyPleasureArtWishHistoryPsychologyLiterature

Abstract

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Reviewed by: Thumb and the Bad Guy Deborah Stevenson Roberts, Ken. Thumb and the Bad Guy; illus. by Leanne Franson. Groundwood/House of Anansi, 2009 [120p]. ISBN 978-0-88899-916-0 $17.95 Reviewed from galleys R Gr. 3–6 The little Canadian fishing village of New Auckland contains all of 143 people, and Thumb and his friend Susan, both twelve years old, sometimes wish it were a little more exciting. They begin to think they’ve found a bad guy in Kirk McKenna (“He spits a lot”), so they attempt to uncover what they’re sure will be his terrible secret. Meanwhile, a new teacher has arrived in the village, and she encourages her students into doing some uncovering of their own when she discovers a significant historical artifact in the mayor’s front yard. Though the mild mystery is entertaining, the real pleasure here is the depiction of everyday life in Thumb’s isolated and eccentric village. Roberts has a tone of matter-of-fact wonderment that recalls the writing of his countryman Brian Doyle (Uncle Ronald, BCCB 2/97), while his humor ranges from the broad to the dry. There are enough touches of characterization to make following Thumb and Susan worthwhile, and the mystery moves along briskly and accessibly. Light-hearted cartoonish illustrations appear occasionally, adding even more invitation to an already enjoyable and speedy read. Copyright © 2009 The Board of Trustees of the University of Illinois

Fetched live from OpenAlex and de-inverted. Abstracts are not stored in this database: the inverted indexes are 8.6 GB of the frame’s 9.3 GB of text, and the host has 13 GB free.

Full frame distilled prediction

Teacher imitation

Not 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.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.003
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.001
Version: codex-gemma-dda1882f352aValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesMeta-epidemiology (narrow), Science and technology studies
Consensus categoriesScience and technology studies
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Not applicable · Consensus signal: Not applicable
GenreCandidate signal: Empirical · Consensus signal: none
Teacher disagreement score0.665
Threshold uncertainty score1.000

Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0030.001
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0010.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0010.002
Bibliometrics0.0000.000
Science and technology studies0.0020.003
Scholarly communication0.0000.000
Open science0.0030.001
Research integrity0.0000.001
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0000.000

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.

Opus teacher head0.010
GPT teacher head0.240
Teacher spread0.229 · 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