In My Brothers’ Shadows: A Review of the Film Chappaquiddick
Bibliographic record
Abstract
Almost 55 years after the assassination of President John F. Kennedy on November 22, 1963, the public’s fascination with the Kennedy family and the legacy of Camelot continues. In September 2017 the film Chappaquiddick premiered at the Toronto International Film Festival, and this past April 2018 the film opened to a broad national release. Readers of this journal will remember the tragedy on Chappaquiddick Island, where on July 18, 1969, during a reunion with former staffers of Robert F. Kennedy’s 1968 campaign, Senator Edward M. (Ted) Kennedy left the party with Mary Jo Kopechne. Driving down a dark road, ostensibly to take Mary Jo to the ferry back to her motel in Edgartown, Ted loses control of the Oldsmobile he is driving, and the car overturns in Poucha Pond. Ted escapes the submerged vehicle, but Mary Jo does not. The film poignantly captures Mary Jo’s last horrific moments of life as she desperately lifts her mouth and nose into the last remaining air pockets in the car as the water rushes in.
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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 | 0.005 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.004 | 0.005 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.002 | 0.003 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.004 | 0.003 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.002 |
| Research integrity | 0.002 | 0.004 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.006 | 0.002 |
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".