Bibliographic record
Abstract
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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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 | 0.001 | 0.002 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.002 | 0.000 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.003 | 0.001 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.002 |
| Research integrity | 0.002 | 0.001 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.526 | 0.251 |
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".