Bibliographic record
Abstract
PrE faCECanadIans and amErICans have historically associated immigration and immigrants with powerful images.On the American side are glowing references to the "tired," the "poor," "the wretched" and "huddled masses yearning to breathe free" -the paean from Emma Lazarus's poem "The New Colossus," which is affixed to the pedestal supporting the Statue of Liberty.Never mind that historians now dispute whether those who disembarked on Ellis Island were either tired or poor.Most were of working age, healthy enough to survive the trans-Atlantic crossing, full of energy and optimism, and sufficiently solvent to pay for their passage (Gabaccia 2006).The "huddled masses" myth also glosses over the exclusion of the unwanted -such as racialized minorities, homosexuals, the poor, slum dwellers, individuals with physical and mental disabilities, political dissidents, and criminals (Johnson 2003).On the Canadian side of the border is another myth-making machine.References to Pier 21 in Halifax -the "Gateway to Canada" -portray Canada as a welcoming land of immigrants.Just as New York's Ellis Island served as a portal for immigrants from 1892 to 1954, Pier 21 was a primary entry point from 1928 to 1971 for over one million immigrants, refugees, and displaced persons (including myself and my family).It also doubled as a departure point for nearly 500,000 military personnel during the Second World War.But like that of Ellis Island, the symbolism of Pier 21 conceals as much as it reveals.The huddled masses imagery commemorates the pluck of newcomers who fled warravaged Europe in hopes of striking it rich.The fact that the huddled
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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 | 0.007 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.002 | 0.002 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.003 | 0.001 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.004 | 0.004 |
| Open science | 0.002 | 0.003 |
| Research integrity | 0.002 | 0.003 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.658 | 0.464 |
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".