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Science writers, female

2015· other· en· W4246633712 on OpenAlexaff
Bernard Lightman

Bibliographic record

VenueThe Encyclopedia of Victorian Literature · 2015
Typeother
Languageen
FieldArts and Humanities
TopicHistory of Science and Natural History
Canadian institutionsYork University
Fundersnot available
KeywordsEliteNarrativeOpposition (politics)Reading (process)Period (music)Meaning (existential)HistoryLiteratureSociologyMedia studiesAestheticsEpistemologyPolitical scienceArtLinguisticsPhilosophyLawPolitics

Abstract

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Female writers capitalized on the growing need of publishers to find authors who could churn out science books that would attract the attention of the rapidly growing Victorian reading audience. So many of them became involved in this activity that it is accurate to refer to this period as a golden age for female popularizers of science. In opposition to the attempts of elite scientists like T. H. Huxley, who pushed to secularize science, these women told their readers that nature was filled with religious meaning and divine purpose. Through their use of innovative narratives and accessible language, they played a major role in shaping the way in which the British public understood the larger significance of modern science.

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How this classification was reachedexpand

Full frame machine prediction

Teacher imitation

Not 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.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.001
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.007
Version: metacan-v3-hybrid-931329e0061cValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesScience and technology studies
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Not applicable · Consensus signal: none
GenreCandidate signal: Other · Consensus signal: Other
Teacher disagreement score0.988
Threshold uncertainty score0.175

Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0010.007
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0000.000
Bibliometrics0.0020.002
Science and technology studies0.0120.003
Scholarly communication0.0080.004
Open science0.0000.003
Research integrity0.0010.002
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0520.015

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 head0.013
GPT teacher head0.225
Teacher spread0.213 · 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

Classification

machine, unvalidated

Machine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.

Study designNot applicable
Domainnot available
GenreOther

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".

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