Bibliographic record
Abstract
The connection between Oxford University and Canadian nationalism is often cited but has been little explored. Oxford appears to have been something of an epiphany, a rite of passage from which the Canadians returned confident of their equality and distinctiveness, determined to be colonial no longer. It was, after all, a circle of Oxford alumni who presided over so great a symbol of independent nationhood as Lester Pearson's Maple Leaf flag of 1965, based on a design submitted by George Stanley. Still, if Pearson and his contemporaries gained a new consciousness of themselves as Canadians, it tends to be overlooked that Oxford reinforced their Britishness as well as their Canadianism. The flag was fundamentally an expression of British-Canadianism that can be traced, in part, to Oxford where Pearson and Stanley earned their ‘blue’ playing hockey. It was a fulfilment, rather than a rejection, of British liberal imperialism. The ‘Res Canadiana’ (as distinct from the Res Britannica) was the product of a British world, and post-1965 Canadianism cannot be understood without reclaiming and deciphering the Britishness underneath.
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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 | 0.001 | 0.003 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.003 | 0.007 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.008 | 0.010 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.005 | 0.002 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Research integrity | 0.002 | 0.002 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.009 | 0.001 |
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".