Bridging Opposites – Drama and Science – in the Plays of John Mighton
Bibliographic record
Abstract
In terms of drama that deals with science, the award-winning Canadian playwright John Mighton is almost unique in being a practising scientist as well as a professional playwright. Indeed, he holds two PhD degrees: one in philosophy and one in mathematics. He has published a highly regarded book on mathematics, under the title of The Myth of Ability, and is the founder and coordinator of a highly innovative school program designed to help students who are having difficulty with math, called JUMP (which stands for “Junior Undiscovered Math Prodigies”). He has also written six plays to date, which have been staged widely across Canada as well as being performed in Europe, Japan and the United States. One of these, Possible Worlds, has been turned into a film by the Canadian director Robert Lepage; and Mighton is currently working with Lepage again, adapting for the stage a science book, titled The Elegant Universe: Superstrings, Hidden Dimensions and the Quest for the Ultimate Theory – a title that demonstrates the ambitiousness of Mighton’s aims. He has also won a number of prestigious national prizes, including no fewer than two Governor General’s Awards for Drama. And, in 2006, he was awarded the Siminovitch Prize (the most prestigious and valuable theatre award in Canada).
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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 | 0.002 | 0.005 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.001 | 0.002 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.009 | 0.014 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.009 | 0.006 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.003 |
| Research integrity | 0.002 | 0.004 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.008 | 0.001 |
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.
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".