Bibliographic record
Abstract
Based on interviews with an ethnically diverse, mixed-sexuality sample of 31 prospective fathers, this article considers how new health information might lead men to update roles of masculinity and fatherhood. This appears to be the first epigenetic-focused interview study of men. Subjects were queried about their reaction to newly established epigenetic findings that aspects of pre-conception male lifetstyle – not just female lifestyle – can transmit to children, and to the notion of a male fertility crisis in the sense of population-level reduction in sperm health. Their impressions of the relative male versus female contribution to the health of unborn children varied considerably, but nearly all maintained a conception of a masculine caretaker role as their primary influence on children's health. Intriguingly, they appeared potentially willing to update their diet and lifestyle behaviors in light of epigenetic findings even in ways that contravene traditional masculine associations. The masculinity literature could refer to this health-based update as emergent hybridity and caring masculinities. This article adds new information to our understanding of the social dynamics around fertility science and epigenetics.
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How this classification was reachedexpand
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 | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| 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 itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one teacher head, 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".