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Record W4256155976 · doi:10.1353/bcc.2017.0825

Gum by Nancy Willard

2017· article· en· W4256155976 on OpenAlex
Elizabeth Bush

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aboutThe title or abstract carries a Canadian signal from the geographic lexicon.
no affNo Canadian affiliation: this work is invisible to an affiliation-only frame.
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Bibliographic record

VenueBulletin of the Center for Children's Books./Bulletin of the Center for Children's Books · 2017
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldEconomics, Econometrics and Finance
TopicDiverse Perspectives in Modern Studies
Canadian institutionsnot available
Fundersnot available
KeywordsWrightArt historyQuarter (Canadian coin)ArtPhilosophyHistoryArchaeology

Abstract

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Reviewed by: Gum by Nancy Willard Elizabeth Bush Willard, Nancy Gum; illus. by Jeff Newman. Candlewick, 2017 [32p] ISBN 978-0-7636-7774-9 $14.99 Reviewed from galleys R 4-7 yrs James rustles his sleeping parents up at six in the morning to collect his week’s allowance—five quarters, one of which is a Canadian coin that his bleary-eyed mother assures him is lucky. “Lucky, ” as in now-please-go-away. After school he and pal Danny head to Mr. Wright’s store, where they take turns inserting their entire net worth into a gumball machine in the hope of getting the little silver racer that never wants to drop down the chute. Each quarter earns six gumballs, or at best a cheesy ring or, surprisingly, a little wheel. (“‘But this machine doesn’t give wheels, ’ says James. ‘It does now, ’ says Danny.”) James is resolved to save his last lucky quarter, but when he tests the Canadian coin against the slot size, it accidentally drops in and everything in the machine flies out—except the racer. After apologies and clean-up, James is now out his money, has no racer, and doesn’t even like gumballs. Mr. Wright is feeling generous, though, and after he takes off the machine’s top, the three-wheeled racer emerges, and Danny is pleased to share his prize wheel. It isn’t much of a story—for many it’s just a trip down their own boulevard of broken dreams—but Willard is an ace at drawing out the tension as each ensuing coin buys inevitable disappointment. Newman’s ultra-streamlined compositions are a hoot, particularly the early morning bedroom scene, and peppy hues (the color of artificial food additives . . . yum!) are ensconced between Bazooka-pink endpapers. It’s never too early to start playing the slots. Copyright © 2017 The Board of Trustees of the University of Illinois

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Full frame distilled prediction

Teacher imitation

Not 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.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.001
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.001
Version: codex-gemma-dda1882f352aValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesMeta-epidemiology (narrow), Science and technology studies
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Not applicable · Consensus signal: Not applicable
GenreCandidate signal: Empirical · Consensus signal: Empirical
Teacher disagreement score0.448
Threshold uncertainty score1.000

Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0010.001
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0010.001
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0020.002
Bibliometrics0.0000.000
Science and technology studies0.0020.002
Scholarly communication0.0000.000
Open science0.0050.002
Research integrity0.0000.001
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0000.000

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 head0.015
GPT teacher head0.213
Teacher spread0.198 · 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