Bibliographic record
Abstract
Abstract Margaret Mead is perhaps the world's best‐known cultural anthropologist. Although her work has not escaped criticism, books like Coming of Age in Samoa, Growing up in New Guinea , and And Keep Your Powder Dry have become enduring classics. In her lifetime, Mead was a true public intellectual, writing and commenting widely on social and scientific issues. After World War II, by which time she was already an academic celebrity, she kept up a tireless schedule of public speaking engagements. One biographer has surmised that her status as a woman in American public life at this time was surpassed only by Eleanor Roosevelt. Mead wrote extensively on sex, gender, race, family, and many other topics, not only to understand “faraway places,” but to understand American culture as well. This was actually a goal of all of her ethnographic research with “primitive” societies. As she wrote in the prologue to her autobiography Blackberry Winter , “I have spent most of my life studying the lives of other peoples, faraway peoples, so that Americans might better understand themselves”.
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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 | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.001 | 0.017 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.002 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.002 | 0.001 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.038 | 0.003 |
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; both teacher heads 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".