Bibliographic record
Abstract
In recent times, a few activists without any formal historical training have managed to convince Edinburgh City Council to approve a new historically inaccurate plaque for the Henry Dundas monument in St. Andrew Square.Efforts to rename Dundas Street in Toronto using similar flawed evidence from the Edinburgh fiasco are also underway.Such agendas are problematic when rushed, pursued without input from a cohort of professionally trained historians, and mainly devoid of careful consideration of historical evidence and context.This book under review further exemplifies these problems.The author is, after all, not a professionally trained historian but a literary scholar.Murray Pittock's Scotland: The Global History 1603 to the Present comprises three sections on conflict and sovereignty, empire, and 'finding a role'.Even if occasional grey break-out boxes (we're never told the reason for them) help to break up close to 500 pages of text, the seven sprawling chapters are individually too long.There is no Bibliography but a brief two-page list of further reading which omits key works in the field.Several important works of scholarship go unmentioned in either the references or short list of further
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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 | 0.001 | 0.002 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.006 | 0.003 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.009 | 0.004 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.007 |
| Research integrity | 0.002 | 0.002 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.092 | 0.010 |
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".