THE AMERICAN NEW WOMAN AND HER INFLUENCE ON THE
Bibliographic record
Abstract
In the second half of the nineteenth century, the small colony of Vancouver Island in the province of British Columbia stood out from the rest of Canada and the rest of the British colonies for reasons of race, class and gender. First, it was a late creation among the series of colonies launched by the Colonial Office in the nineteenth century as it was open for settlement in 1849 only. Thus it was a well-devised creation which had learnt from the success and failure of other British settlements overseas. It was designed for white British settlers, and preferably reserved to middle-class families as it was said that British middle-class wives and mothers had an important part to play in the building of colonies. They would preserve the British spirit and identity in this small British island in the Pacific North-West, secluded beyond the Rocky Mountains. The British middle class counted many penniless and disillusioned families in these mid-Victorian years. Hence many young couples found their way to the 'last jewel of the Crown'—as Victoria was advertised then—in the 1850s and 1860s. They came with their bourgeois dream, that of social and financial success in a British colony under the British flag. Most of the middle-class fathers secured a position in the colonial administration in the capital city of Victoria as civil servants.
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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 | 0.003 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.022 | 0.012 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.006 | 0.003 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.005 |
| Research integrity | 0.002 | 0.008 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.020 | 0.004 |
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".