Currents and counter-currents in Canadian politics, or, A brief enquiry into certain factors which to-day dominate political life in Canada.
Bibliographic record
Abstract
From a causual survey of a decade of domestic events it would appear that in Canada, to a large extent, the honora- ble and dignified profession of politics has degenerated into a mere trade ; and success-as determined by the present standard of emolument and profit, rather than by the criterion of unsullied honor and trust, by which it was formerly distinguished-largely depends upon the extent of individual attainments in the arts of chicanery, insincerity and dissimulation.While this is, in a large measure, unfortunately true, there is, however, a considerable body of worthy men engaged in political life, who, Pericleslike, scorn the merely mercenary opportunities of their profession ; who, by virtue of the high order of their intelligence and integrity, adorn the sphere of their calling, and whose reputed virtues exercise a salutary influences over a large number of ambitious aspirants to legis- lative careers.In Canada the political profession is paramount: literature, art and science seem quite subordimate to this widely pre- vailing, popular pursuit, and, therefore, it naturally commands a powerful influence in the formation of a national sentiment,
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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 | 0.002 | 0.006 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.003 | 0.008 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.022 | 0.014 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.014 | 0.005 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.002 |
| Research integrity | 0.002 | 0.004 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.016 | 0.001 |
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".