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Record W4411790646 · doi:10.59236/td2008vol1iss3631

Look out! Here come the boomers

2008· article· en· W4411790646 on OpenAlex

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no affNo Canadian affiliation: this work is invisible to an affiliation-only frame.
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Bibliographic record

VenueTransformative Dialogues Teaching and Learning Journal · 2008
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldSocial Sciences
TopicEducational Leadership and Practices
Canadian institutionsnot available
Fundersnot available
KeywordsBaby boomersPolitical scienceSociologyEconomicsDemographic economics

Abstract

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The term ageism, coined by Robert N. Butler (1969), refers to the stereotyping of and prejudice against individuals or groups based on their age.According to Todd Nelson (2005), there has been little study and research on ageism as a form of prejudice, compared to racism and gender bias.As the baby boom generation (those born in Canada and the U.S. between 1946 and 1966) starts to consider retirement, it is about to come face to face with ageism on a scale never seen before.Within the next five years, North America is about to go from an unusually low number of people entering yearly into the "normal" retirement age of 65 to the highest number in history.Charles Longino refers to it as apocalyptic demography or the demographic imperative (2005, p. 80).There are growing concerns that the baby boomers could bankrupt the social support systems as they stand now.While all of this is taking place, older people are staying healthier and living longer than ever before.In addition to references to Nelson and Butler, this paper also refers to two recent psychology research papers which challenge previously held theories on aging, memory, and learning.Finally, it suggests a Friereian educational lens through which baby boomers could look to seek a significant role for themselves in raising the awareness of ageism as a form of oppression and to create the means to reverse its effects on everyone affected by it, not just older persons.In this paper I will be discussing several issues related to ageism.Certain defined age brackets will be assigned to terms and expressions.For instance, I will refer to people over the age of 65 to 74 as 'seniors', and people over 75 to as 'elders' and 'the elderly'.The terms 'baby boom' and 'baby boomers' will refer to the 20 year period following the end of World War II and those members of North American society born during that time.Although I consider the two age brackets to be totally stereotypical and arbitrary categorizations, and the 'baby boom' time frame to vary slightly between American and Canadian contexts, they have generally been accepted in popular use by government, the private sector, and the public at large.

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Full frame distilled prediction

Teacher imitation

Not 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.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.005
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.001
Version: codex-gemma-dda1882f352aValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesScience and technology studies, Research integrity
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Qualitative · Consensus signal: none
GenreCandidate signal: Empirical · Consensus signal: Empirical
Teacher disagreement score0.532
Threshold uncertainty score1.000

Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0050.001
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0000.000
Bibliometrics0.0000.000
Science and technology studies0.0080.001
Scholarly communication0.0000.001
Open science0.0000.000
Research integrity0.0000.003
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0000.000

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.

Opus teacher head0.085
GPT teacher head0.344
Teacher spread0.259 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it