Bibliographic record
Abstract
A project like this, spanning nine years and two continents, would not be possible without the goodwill and support of many individuals and organizations.First and foremost my gratitude goes to Margaret Gale Wightman, daughter of Betty and Godfrey Gale and collaborator extraordinaire.Margaret generously provided me with hundreds of pages of (meticulously organized) family documents, photographs, films, books, tape recordings, and her mother's original diary.She also introduced me to her surviving aunts and uncles, paving the way for me to conduct interviews with relatives in Ontario and the UK.We travelled together twice to China, where Margaret invited me to come alongside her to revisit her birthplace ( Jinan) and the site of her last two years of internment (Pudong, in Shanghai).I cannot overstate the value of Margaret's contribution to this project; it simply would not have happened without her.There are a number of other China-born missionary kids (or "mishkids") who were unfailing in their support and enthusiasm.I am especially grateful to the late Ruth Thomson Laws, Murray Thomson, Muriel Thomson Valentien, Mary Struthers McKim, Norah Busby, the late Arthur Menzies, and Mavis Knight Weatherhead.Particularly memorable is an evening spent as a dinner guest of Murray Thomson in Ottawa in 2005.Murray also invited Mary McKim, whom he had not seen for many years.Along with a lovely dinner I was treated to candid reminiscences of hilarious and frightening childhood events, recounted with great relish.In Alberta, Mavis Weatherhead gained the honorific "granny" from my children just hours after she came to our home for a visit with Chinese dignitaries.My observation of the depth of China-bred relationships extended into China, where I travelled with Margaret, Mary, Norah, and Mavis and other missionary relatives in 2006 at the invitation of the president of the former mission hospital in Weihui, Henan.Bearing witness to that historic return "home" was a privilege unmatched by anything in my career so far.A number of former internees provided insights into life in internment camps in China.Most notable are Greg Leck and Desmond Power who, in addition to painstakingly compiling a database of over 13,500 internees
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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 | 0.010 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.002 | 0.001 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.002 | 0.001 |
| Open science | 0.002 | 0.003 |
| Research integrity | 0.001 | 0.002 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.517 | 0.458 |
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; the direct Gemma label and the distilled Codex classifier agree on what is shown here.
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".