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Record W7155528812 · doi:10.59236/emro.v27i8a225

Illusions of Control

2025· article· W7155528812 on OpenAlex
Samuel Kim

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no affNo Canadian affiliation: this work is invisible to an affiliation-only frame.
No Canadian affiliation. An affiliation-only frame, the usual design, would never have seen this work. It is one of the works that make the case for inverting the frame.

Bibliographic record

VenueEducational Media Reviews Online · 2025
Typearticle
Language
FieldHealth Professions
TopicFilm in Education and Therapy
Canadian institutionsnot available
Fundersnot available
KeywordsIllusionContext (archaeology)NarrativeControl (management)Closure (psychology)Psychological resilienceElement (criminal law)Face (sociological concept)

Abstract

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Distributed by Good DocsProduced by Andrea Schmidt and Shannon WalshDirected by Shannon Walsh2019, Streaming, 87 mins Illusions of Control chronicles the individual efforts of five women from vastly different cultures and backgrounds as they navigate their own trials and tribulations. At face value, director Shannon Walsh’s film appears to be about five cases of resilience. However, as the film progresses it becomes one narrative on resilience that transcends culture and geography. Walsh’s constant scaffolding of similar issues with dramatically different geographies is noteworthy as it unifies what are physically isolated communities. Some aspect of each case can be tied to another – dealing with potential exposure to environmental risks in Japan and Canada, concerns for the well-being of future generations in Mexico and China, and seeking closure on death in Mexico and the United States. Despite the uniqueness of each problem, the unifying element is the support systems aiding each individual. While the pacing initially feels off as the film jumps rather suddenly amongst the five main interviewees, the film does an excellent job of using other voices to provide cultural or social context to the issue at hand or how the issue is being handled. I would highly recommend the film for mental health counseling and social work students as both would benefit from exploring and discussing culturally sensitive approaches to resilience. Awards:Best Canadian Documentary, Honorable Mention, Calgary International Film Festival

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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)0.002
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.009
Version: codex-gemma-dda1882f352aValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesMetaresearch, Meta-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: Review · Consensus signal: none
Teacher disagreement score0.513
Threshold uncertainty score1.000

Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0020.009
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0010.000
Bibliometrics0.0010.001
Science and technology studies0.0010.000
Scholarly communication0.0000.000
Open science0.0010.000
Research integrity0.0000.001
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0310.001

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 head0.094
GPT teacher head0.491
Teacher spread0.398 · 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