Bibliographic record
Abstract
In the month of March, the world again had an opportunity to celebrate the twin international events.The first was on March 8 th (International Women's Day) and the second on March 21 st (The International Day for the Elimination of Racial Discrimination).Naturally, the magnitude of such celebrations vary from geographic region to geographic region and from country to country.Yet, with much disappointment, one can hardly avoid noticing that the infectious energy of the 1970s and 80s is lacking from the recent celebrations of the Women's Day events.Likewise, the outrage against racial segregation, apartheid and state-violence which formed the basis of the United Nations Declaration of the Elimination of Racial Discrimination ( 1966) is muted at best.What happened since the 1970s and 80s to erode some of the positive energy to demand and initiate social change?The optimists can argue that in the majority of the countries, including some remote and traditionbound patches of the globe, the most severe limitations against women have been mostly addressed if not completely resolved.Indeed, observations and statistical information abound to support such up-beat assertions.For example, who can forget the images of some Afghani women shedding their claustrophobic burkas and who can forget the victoriously raised purple-ink-stained fingers of the Iraqi women who were allowed to vote after a long period of oppression?Optimists can also make numerous positive claims in terms of race and ethnic relations.For example, even the ultra-conservative US Republicans recently chose a black woman to serve as the Secretary of the State.The cold war is long over and legalized apartheid has been abolished in South Africa.Moreover, the malevolence of ethnic cleansing in Rwanda, Bosnia, Chechia etc., is no longer making the daily headlines and evening-news nightmares.Regardless of the degree of one's optimism, however, the darker side of the coin also requires some acknowledgement.Just to give an example, there is a worrisome resignation in the masses about women's issues.This resignation is visible in the developed as well as the less developed worlds, although its causes may be quite different.In the west, there is a heightened sense, albeit mostly erroneous, that gender equality has been reached.Ironically, this belief is equally shared by young men and women.In contrast, in the less developed world, the existing problems of poverty, ethnic or racial strife, political instability and even natural disasters are so overwhelming that an in-depth focus on women's issues may not be palatable for most.For race and culture-based issues and problems, even a misguided level of resignation is not possible.The 'we versus them' and the 'good versus evil' rhetoric of most western political and economic decisionmakers are trickling down to dangerous polarizations.France and
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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 | 0.012 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.002 | 0.001 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.002 | 0.001 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.002 | 0.001 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.006 | 0.003 |
| Open science | 0.002 | 0.002 |
| Research integrity | 0.005 | 0.004 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.497 | 0.394 |
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".