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Greedy for who? Interracial marriage and co-ethnic friendship groups

2025· article· en· W4414126518 on OpenAlexafffundabout
Brett Matsushita, Sean Lauer

Bibliographic record

VenueFamilies Relationships and Societies · 2025
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldSocial Sciences
TopicUrban, Neighborhood, and Segregation Studies
Canadian institutionsUniversity of British Columbia
FundersSocial Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada
KeywordsFriendshipEthnic groupContext (archaeology)Diversity (politics)Race (biology)White (mutation)Power (physics)

Abstract

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How do race and marriage alter friendship networks? Past research and theory suggest that marriage changes friendship networks. We consider whether interracial relationships could alter the ethnic composition of friendships as friendship networks change. Using the Canadian Ethnic Diversity Survey, we examine the relationship between interracial marriage and co-ethnic friendship. We find that individuals in interracial marriages are less likely to report having co-ethnic friendship groups when compared with other marriages. Looking more closely at race, we find that the decrease is primarily driven by changes among racialised spouses. Racialised spouses in interracial marriages are considerably less likely to report co-ethnic friendships than racialised spouses in intraracial marriages. For White spouses, in contrast, there is little difference. Racialised spouses in interracial marriages are also less likely to report co-ethnic friendship groups than White spouses in interracial marriages. We consider these findings in the context of power imbalances in interracial marriages.

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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)0.001
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.001
Version: codex-gemma-dda1882f352aValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesScience and technology studies
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Theoretical or conceptual · Consensus signal: none
GenreCandidate signal: Empirical · Consensus signal: Empirical
Teacher disagreement score0.499
Threshold uncertainty score0.999

Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0010.001
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0000.000
Bibliometrics0.0000.000
Science and technology studies0.0030.001
Scholarly communication0.0000.000
Open science0.0000.000
Research integrity0.0000.000
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 head0.074
GPT teacher head0.357
Teacher spread0.283 · 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

Classification

machine, unvalidated

Machine predicted; a candidate call from one teacher head, not a consensus.

Study designTheoretical or conceptual
Domainnot available
GenreEmpirical

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".

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Published2025
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