Bibliographic record
Abstract
Critiquing SecularismIn the summer of 2017, the Tunisian, Jordanian, and Lebanese governments went about repealing sections of their legal codes that permitted the escape of rapists from punishment through marriage to their victims.In the comment section of the online al-Jazeera posting about the repeals, a netizen stated, "A win for secularism!Islam is a religious cult -it's an entire way of life for these people!"The commentator had obviously not read the report by Rothna Begum which clearly proved that the rape laws were not indigenous to anything resembling shari'ah law or Islamic jurisprudential rulings (fiqh) but were actually a hold-over from the colonial past in these countries -specifically the French Napoleonic Code of 1810.Begum noted that these provisions were only repealed in France proper in 1994.What interests us, however, are the cultural traces about secularism that we find in the comment below the article that, to the untrained eye, would likely go unnoticed.These traces contain the many epistemological and ethical assumptions within
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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 | 0.006 | 0.048 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.002 | 0.001 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.002 | 0.003 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.005 | 0.003 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.007 | 0.005 |
| Open science | 0.005 | 0.003 |
| Research integrity | 0.028 | 0.033 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.032 | 0.027 |
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".