The Great War, Literary Tastes, and Political Correctness: The Strange Case of Charles Pollen Adams, German Dialect Poet
Bibliographic record
Abstract
Charles Pollen Adams was a strange candidate to be America's most {xjpular and widely-read German dialect poet at the turn of the twentieth century.'To begin with, he was not of German but of Yankee, that is.New England ancestry, and, as far as is known, was not at all proficient in German, neither standard nor dialect, and had never studied the language formally.Other New Englanders, including his distant relative John Quincy Adams, had exhibited an affinity for German language, literature, and culture which dated back to the earliest days of colonization.But while Adams was named for the German patriot and scholar Charles Pollen, his initial contact with German dialect, according to numerous biographical sources, came not from scholarly circles but from listening as a youth to his family s washerwoman and from conversing with Pennsylvania German soldiers in the Army o f the Potomac during his rather lengthy convalescence from wounds sustained in the batde of Gettysburg
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame distilled prediction
Teacher imitationNot 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.
Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.001 | 0.003 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
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.
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 teacher head, 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".