Why Did the Teenagers Rock 'n' Roll During the Pandemic of 1957? The TuneSmith Series M - The Doctor of Digital™ GMick Smith, PhD
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Abstract
A striking contrast between 1957 and the present is that Americans today appear to have a much lower tolerance for risk than their grandparents and great grandparents. As one contemporary recalled, \\"For those who grew up in the 1930s and 1940s, there was nothing unusual about finding yourself threatened by contagious disease. Mumps, measles, chickenpox, and German measles swept through our entire schools and towns. . . . We took the Asian flu in stride. We said our prayers and took our chances.\\" Perhaps a society with a stronger fabric of family life, community life, and church life was better equipped to withstand the anguish of untimely deaths in a society that has, in so many ways, come apart. There were no lockdown since the US working population did not have the option to work from home in 1957. In the absence of a telecommunications infrastructure more sophisticated than the telephone (and a quarter of U.S. households still did not have a landline in 1957), the choice was between working at one's workplace or not working at all. In 1957-even with a serious risk of infectious disease (and not just flu; there was also polio and much else), life was jovial. By contrast, to be young in 2020 was-for most American teenagers-rather hellish. Stuck indoors, struggling to concentrate on \\"distance-learning\\" with irritable parents working from home in the next room, young people experienced at best frustration and at worst mental illness. Huey \\"Piano\\" Smith captured the celebration of the rock 'n' roll generation despite the pandemic. The episode blogpost may be viewed at:https://www.blogger.com/blog/post/edit/16280040/8446940506587874311Time to answer a quick 4-question survey? Click to answer; thank you!https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1pfdA_6_7YzUnyolusOJy0lJeU0gNm07HIOMFyM2YCT4/editIf you like the Podcast please do three simple things for me: rate, subscribe, and write a review. Thank you!Amazon Associate ID is thedoctorofdi-20Consider purchasing the song, \\"Rockin' Pneumonia and the Boogie Woogie Flu,\\" Huey \\"Piano\\" Smith.
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How this classification was reachedexpand
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 | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.012 | 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 itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one teacher head, 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".