A portrait of John Crompton's career: running a marathon at quarter mile pace
Bibliographic record
Abstract
John Leslie Crompton was at the forefront of the leisure field in the UK, keynoting national conferences and interacting with leading corporate and political figures in the leisure field. John had considerable experience with tourism businesses at Loughborough Recreation Planning Consultants Limited, but found that the field was in its very formative years in academia. He was blessed in that Dr Clare Gunn was on the faculty at Texas A&M when he arrived there, and was pioneering academic courses. John is a phenomenal teacher of both undergraduate and graduate students. He has taught our department&s;s capstone undergraduate course for over three decades. The course has historically been taught as a marketing and financing class that features multiple case projects. He writes most of the case studies. John is also an accomplished athlete. In his younger years he was gifted and successful at multiple sports.
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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) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.007 | 0.001 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.005 | 0.003 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.002 |
| Research integrity | 0.002 | 0.005 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.050 | 0.019 |
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".