Culture of masculinity, alcohol consumption and risk to cancer: an international survey
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Bibliographic record
Abstract
Objective: To understand the underlying cultural effects of masculinity on alcohol consumption and the associated risk for cancer. Method: An exploratory online survey. Data was collected (2018-2019) from 176 men living in 9 countries who responded to an online survey in English, French, Italian, Portuguese, or Spanish. Socio-demographic data and responses to close-ended questions were compiled as descriptive statistics. Responses to the open-ended questions were analyzed using thematic analysis with the pre-established themes: alcohol consumption and its acceptance for men in respondents’ ethno-cultural groups; and thoughts about scientific evidence concerning the consumption of alcohol in high concentration and heightened risk of cancer. Results: Most respondents were under 30 years of age (33.7%). Results across the linguistic sub-samples indicate that among 10 statements, alcohol consumption is part of most students’ life (18.8%), it facilitates acceptance in social groups (16.9%), and it is not repressed at social gatherings (16.6%). Construction (27.5%) was the top among professions in which alcohol consumption is most common. Among situational factors related to alcohol consumption, respondents chose stress (18.1%), unemployment or unstable job (18.0%), and financial trouble (17.9%). Perceptions of acceptance of alcohol consumption are influenced by traditional masculinity-related values, beliefs, and behaviors and the acknowledged lack of cancer literacy were revealed as conditions promoting a risk for cancer. Conclusion- Alcohol consumption is normalized to a certain extent among men of different ages and backgrounds. Evidence informs policymakers and health promoters as they develop legislation and programming to limit unhealthy behavior related to alcohol consumption.
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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 | 0.012 | 0.001 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| 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