Profanity and You: Exploring the Acceptability of Swearing in Today's Culture
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Bibliographic record
Abstract
In 1972, a list was created; George Carlin's list of "Seven Dirty Words You Can't Say on Television". Part of the humor in Carlin's performance arose from the nature of censorship and the shock of obscenity in a public venue. The overall shock value of swearing has depleted as most swear words have become acceptable and commonplace. The Toronto Sun of March 20,2002 reported; "During four weeks of viewing one prime time hour in 1989, the Parents Television Council counted 108 uses of hell and damn. By 1999 there were 518." This is a minor example of the rise of profanity in one form of communication—the media. Through the use of humor, this research project will look at why swearing has become so acceptable in American society and the repercussions this poses.
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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 | 0.001 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| 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