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Offspring (2001)

2011· other· en· W7094223877 on OpenAlex

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aboutThe title or abstract carries a Canadian signal from the geographic lexicon.
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Bibliographic record

VenueDigitalGeorgetown (Georgetown University Library) · 2011
Typeother
Languageen
FieldMedicine
TopicReproductive Health and Technologies
Canadian institutionsnot available
Fundersnot available
KeywordsSisterContext (archaeology)Face (sociological concept)Identity (music)Inheritance (genetic algorithm)Social media
DOInot available

Abstract

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Documentary film-maker Barry Steven s quest to find his anonymous, sperm-donor father, takes viewers through the early history of donor insemination (DI) (previously termed artificial insemination by donor or AID) and the evolving social views about the practice and resulting children. Genetic testing is used as a tool to find donor siblings and to unravel this biological mystery. Viewers painlessly learn about DNA and genetic testing techniques as a part of the story. The film is filled with humor, but deals with serious ethical issues, such as society s role in causing intentionally anonymous parentage and the related loss of genetic/health information and what constitutes ethical behavior in the face of infertility. Other poignant questions are raised about of self identity and the nature of the parent and child relationship. Doctors Mary Barton and Berthold Wiesner (husband and wife) and early workers in assisted reproduction helped create the pregnancies that were Barry Stevens and his sister in their London clinic because their (social) father and their mother's husband was unable to father children of his own. Stevens provides references to early medical papers about donor insemination and to the social context and attitudes toward the practice. This program is one of my favorite "bioethics" videos. Nominated for an International Emmy (2001) and winner of the Audience Award at the 2001 Amsterdam International Documentary Film Festival. The CBC website for Mr. Stevens' related program Bio-Dad (2009) contains material relevant to this first documentary. See http://www.cbc.ca/documentaries/doczone/2009/biodad/ Program may be viewed in its entirety online in Canada only. See Mr. Stevens testimony before Canada's Senate Standing Committee on Human Rights in Ottawa on October 2, 2006 at http://www.parl.gc.ca/39/1/parlbus/commbus/senate/Com-e/huma-e/10ev-e.htm?Language=E&Parl=39&Ses=1&comm_id=77 See CBS "Keeping a Secret: Should the Identity of Sperm Donors Be Revealed?" at http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2003/07/11/60minutes/main562830.shtml Stevens made a 2009 update of this story called Bio-Dad.

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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)0.000
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.000
Version: codex-gemma-dda1882f352aValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesMeta-epidemiology (narrow), Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)
Consensus categoriesInsufficient payload (model declined to judge)
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Not applicable · Consensus signal: Not applicable
GenreCandidate signal: Other · Consensus signal: Other
Teacher disagreement score0.023
Threshold uncertainty score0.999

Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0010.001
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0010.000
Bibliometrics0.0020.001
Science and technology studies0.0000.001
Scholarly communication0.0000.001
Open science0.0010.001
Research integrity0.0010.001
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0130.002

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 head0.019
GPT teacher head0.204
Teacher spread0.185 · 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