Bibliographic record
Abstract
Abstract This introductory chapter to the book outlines the concept of ‘Baby Boomer’ and why it is important. The main argument in the chapter, and sustained throughout the book, is that in terms of Anglicanism, members of the Baby Boomer generation born to the previous active Anglican generation rejected their religiosity and raised the least religious generations ever. The story needs to be told of how this happened, and why the trend is likely to be irreversible. The book further develops that initial focus by suggesting important comparisons to Christian decline more widely, and argues that the book’s research undermines key aspects of secularisation theses. The criteria for the sample upon which the research and this book are based were tight: people interviewed were born in the 1940s and 1950s to church-attending Anglicans, were baptised and confirmed, and then became ex-churched and, in their own descriptions, non-religious. To follow previous research carried out mostly in England with a small Canadian sample (Day 2017), most (38) of the 55 interviewees are British; 17 are Canadian; and 34 are women. Following socio-economic classification systems, all but four are situated within middle class strata.
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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 | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.003 | 0.002 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.003 | 0.003 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Research integrity | 0.001 | 0.002 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.017 | 0.004 |
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".