Bibliographic record
Abstract
This issue goes to press as we reach the half-way mark of another monthof fasting, the blessed month of Ramadan. A month when Muslims abstainfrom food and drink between sunrise and sunset is bound to bring to the forequestions of identity, especially for Muslims living in non-Muslim societies.I marveled as two of my non-Muslim students blithely ate their fruit beforeour morning class while the Muslim students and I could only eye their foodwith envy – the pungent smell of orange peel only heightened by the fast.That the students seemed totally oblivious only increased my wonder. It is,perhaps, an odd example to mention, but as we proceeded to have a heateddiscussion of the position of women in Islam, it reminded me of the dailycomplexities of maintaining an Islamic identity in the West.This question of identity and what it means to be Muslim has, perhaps,never been so under the spotlight or so hotly debated. That is why academicanalysis, done under the constraints of the noble ideals of academia (asearch for as dispassionate and objective meaning about the human conditionas is humanly possible) is more pressing than ever. The fate ofMuslims in the West depends on it, and on the dissemination of good academicthought through the media into popular culture. The week of writingthis editorial saw the arrest of a young man alleged to be behind hateliterature left under the doors of the Arab and Muslim StudentAssociations at a university in Toronto. Under a photograph of a whitemale, a caption reads: “Those who follow the Islam faith [sic] need to bekilled in the worst possible way imaginable.” These are some of the resultsof Bush’s “war on terror,” which, though meant to make the world saferfor freedom, democracy, and tolerance, is, in fact, polarizing the globe andfuelling an ethnic and racial particularism that has been growing duringthe past decade.As with this year’s other issues, the articles in this issue deal withthese perennially important questions of identity, ethnicity, the state,media, and war. Two of the three relate to the current predicament ofMuslims and the West, and the third looks at related questions in a historicaland intra-Muslim context – the role of Arab tribes in the eighth centu ry`Abbasid revolution ...
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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 | 0.002 | 0.013 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.002 | 0.001 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.003 | 0.001 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.010 | 0.004 |
| Open science | 0.002 | 0.002 |
| Research integrity | 0.005 | 0.005 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.578 | 0.499 |
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".