Imposter syndrome: A case study on the experiences and perspectives of a teenage feminist indie band
Bibliographic record
Abstract
This research article features the perspectives of two young women who create and perform as an indie band together. Their stories demonstrate a stark contrast between their relative success in this early stage of their career and the obstacles that they continue to face. Linked to an underlying feeling of imposter syndrome, they reveal an ongoing struggle with confidence as musicians, resentment of the gentrification and closure of music venues, unsupportive high school teachers and administration and age-related barriers to the indie music scene. Encounters with sexism and ageism within the music scene and industry allude to systemic issues resulting in a dearth of musical spaces in which young artists can participate safely. Through interrogation of existing pathways to musical experiences and deeper understanding of young artists and their experiences within these avenues, attention to these discrepancies is critical in all settings of music education.
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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 | 0.002 | 0.006 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.002 | 0.001 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.015 | 0.009 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.005 | 0.004 |
| Open science | 0.002 | 0.008 |
| Research integrity | 0.004 | 0.006 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.003 | 0.001 |
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".