Bibliographic record
Abstract
In 1973, a five-year-old girl known as Pookie was exhibited as "The Monkey Girl" at the Canadian National Exhibition.Dressed only in her diaper and on display for just one day before complaints closed the exhibit down, she would be the last of many children exhibited as "freaks" in twentieth-century Canada.Jane Nicholas takes us on a search for answers about how and why the freak show persisted into the 1970s and offers a sophisticated analysis of its place in twentieth-century culture.These exhibits survived and thrived because of their flexible business model and government support, and remained popular by mobilizing cultural and medical ideas of the body and normalcy.Canadian Carnival Freaks and the Extraordinary Body is the first full-length study of the freak show in Canada and is a significant contribution to our understanding of the history of Canadian popular culture, attitudes toward children, and the social construction of ablebodiness.Based on a foundation of impressive research, the book will be of particular interest to anyone interested in the history of disability, the history of childhood, and the history of consumer culture.
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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 | 0.001 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.003 | 0.000 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.003 | 0.002 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.002 |
| Research integrity | 0.001 | 0.002 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.774 | 0.529 |
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; the direct Gemma label and the distilled Codex classifier agree on what is shown here.
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".