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Record W4322579690 · doi:10.1386/btwo_00077_7

Solving crimes, telling stories: An interview with Tom Ryan

2022· article· en· W4322579690 on OpenAlexaffabout
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Bibliographic record

VenueBook 2 0 · 2022
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldSocial Sciences
TopicCanadian Identity and History
Canadian institutionsDalhousie University
Fundersnot available
KeywordsScholarshipActive listeningInterviewDozenArtNova scotiaPsychologyLiteratureMedia studiesSociologyPsychoanalysisArt historyLawAnthropologyPolitical science

Abstract

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Like the interviewer, Tom Ryan is based in Nova Scotia, in Canada’s Maritimes. Ryan is the author of more than a half-dozen books, including some critically acclaimed works for young readers: Keep This to Yourself (), for example, earned the 2020 Arthur Ellis Award for YA Crime Book and the 2020 ITW Award for Best YA Thriller; more recently I Hope You’re Listening () was awarded the 2021 Lambda Literary Award. In what follows, Ryan and I dwell on these two novels to explore what attracts him to the YA genre, his writing process, central themes in his oeuvre and how he imbues his characters with psychological complexity. This interview contributes to scholarship by expanding critical attention on Nova Scotian literature and by attending to Ryan’s remarkably successful works of genre fiction.

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How this classification was reachedexpand

Full frame machine prediction

Teacher imitation

Not 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.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.008
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.017
Version: metacan-v3-hybrid-931329e0061cValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesnone
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Not applicable · Consensus signal: none
GenreCandidate signal: Other · Consensus signal: none
Teacher disagreement score0.647
Threshold uncertainty score0.701

Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0080.017
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0010.001
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0010.000
Bibliometrics0.0020.002
Science and technology studies0.0460.023
Scholarly communication0.0090.006
Open science0.0030.005
Research integrity0.0060.014
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0040.001

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.

Opus teacher head0.031
GPT teacher head0.258
Teacher spread0.227 · 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

Classification

machine, unvalidated

Machine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.

The models applied no category: nothing in the taxonomy fit this work.
Study designNot applicable
Domainnot available
GenreOther

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".

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