Bibliographic record
Abstract
One of Canada's first peer support groups for funeral workers has been launched in Ottawa to address the overlooked mental health challenges of those in the death business, Ottawa Citizen reported Feb. 3. Michael Dixon and three colleagues founded Ottawa Funeral Peer Support last year after recognizing the suffering that existed within the profession. “Like first responders, we have lost an awful lot of people to depression and mental illness,” said Dixon, a supervisor with Ottawa Mortuary Services. “A lot of other people have simply stepped away from the profession.” Funeral workers experience the same kind of trauma as paramedics and police officers, he said, but they tend to focus on grieving clients and ignore their own well‐being. Ontario now recognizes PTSD as a work‐related illness for police, firefighters and paramedics, which gives them faster access to workers' compensation. The law does not apply to funeral workers. Ottawa Funeral Peer Support now has 80 members on its Facebook page.
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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 | 0.012 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.010 | 0.004 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.005 | 0.007 |
| Open science | 0.002 | 0.005 |
| Research integrity | 0.006 | 0.012 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.220 | 0.097 |
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".