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Clown, Care, and Community: A Conversation

2025· article· en· 0 citations· W7160120580 on OpenAlex· 10.3138/ctr.204.012

Why is this work in the frame?

A frame that forgets how it found something cannot be audited. These are the routes that admitted this work.

Canadian venueIt was published in a Canadian venue.

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.

The three-model screen

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All three models called this out of scope.

stratum: venue_new · design weight: 2684.25 (the sample is stratified; any rate computed without the weight is wrong)
Claude Opus 4.8OUT
genre: other
about Canada: no
confidence: high

Conversation piece in a theatre review on clowning, care, and community; the object is performance practice.

GPT-5.6 (high)OUT
genre: editorial/commentary
about Canada: no
confidence: high

The title indicates a conversation about clown care and community rather than research itself.

Grok 4.5OUT
genre: editorial/commentary
about Canada: no
confidence: low

Conversation piece in a theatre journal with no abstract; no evidence the object is research itself.

Abstract

No abstract. This is not a gap in this database — OpenAlex has none either. 23.3% of the frame is in this state, and the screen finds HALF as much metaresearch here, so the absence is a measured bias rather than a missing field.

The record

Venue
Canadian Theatre Review
Topic
Gothic Literature and Media Analysis
Field
Social Sciences
Canadian institutions
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Has abstract in OpenAlex
no