Taking a Knee in American Football: A Semiotic Case Study
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Bibliographic record
Abstract
As an athlete whose actions receive enormous amounts of media attention, Colin Kaepernick chose to use his powerful position to bring worldwide attention to the unjust murders of innocent black men at the hands of American police officers by kneeling silently during the national anthem before football games. Kaepernick was soon joined by other players in the NFL who shared his view that the anthem and the flag, both symbols of the nation, do not represent Americans as they should (Miller, 2017, para. 3), since the police officers who killed Alton Sterling and Philando Castile-to name a couple-were given paid leave instead of being found guilty of murder. The movement, "taking a knee", is an example of how nonverbal communication can have indexical meanings founded in cultural ideologies. Following The aim is to show that even gestures can have indexical ordering.
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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 | 0.001 | 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 | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| 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 it