Ageing habits: a case study of the experience of ageing by teaching Sisters
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Bibliographic record
Abstract
The article explores the experience of ageing in cohort of a group of women that has received scant attention: teaching Sisters (nuns / women religious). The authors argue that the stages of ageing, and in particular the stages which follow menopause and precede final decline and death, were blurred within convent communities. Especially in the time before the Second Vatican Council, as they aged, teaching Sisters experienced very few changes in their daily routine. They were often as active in their sixties and seventies as they had been in their thirties and forties. Often, they often started new careers once they retired from teaching. When they finally withdrew from an active life, or became infirm or ill, the presence of their convent community reduced the possibility of loneliness and lack of mental stimulation. Aging Sisters were also assured of comforts that were often denied to others: they would be nursed; they would be comforted by the prayers of their community; they would be given a dignified burial in the convent cemetery. Through an interrogation of archival evidence, the article offers some insights into the impact of senescence within a specific educational and social context.
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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 | 0.000 | 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 it