That an economist finds human behaviour that every normal human would expect "astonishing" is itself not remotely astonishing.
Authors’ names have ‘astonishing’ influence on peer reviewers: study
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#32"A Nobel prizewinner is six times more likely than someone less well known to get a thumbs-up for acceptance, finds study." Lifehack discovered: legally change your name to that of a Nobel prizewinner if pursuing academia.
Hey, it's me, Niels Bohr.
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#33That an economist finds human behaviour that every normal human would expect "astonishing" is itself not remotely astonishing.
Peer review is not supposed to be a Twitter popularity contest so these numbers are indeed astonishing.
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#34This reminds me of a bias I saw on Quora, where some popular contributor gets tons of upvotes by fans regardless of whether their answer is any good or not (often you have to dig deep into the comments to find out that it's not a good answer). (I should qualify that I don't know if it's still that way; I started using it when it was first launched and then quit 6-7 years ago once it started turning into a fanboi and…
It was worse on Digg, before it "pivoted" into whatever it is now.
https://www.wired.com/2012/07/mklopez-digg-power-user-interv...
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#35That’s what we want in society right? Perks for doing hard work and then being recognized for it. That’s what “street cred” is. Maintaining a reputation is hard work and the fast pass and acknowledgment from the broader society is your reward. As in this person has more than proved himself, let’s not vet him as much.
No. You get gatekeeping and laziness and stale group think and unstated quid pro quo and discrimination. It's worse science.
A famous name getting the same paper published easier is a failure of peer review. The whole point of science is that ideas and evidence stands on its own merit. Not celebrity or seniority or power or any other axis that doesn't matter.
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#36That’s what we want in society right? Perks for doing hard work and then being recognized for it. That’s what “street cred” is. Maintaining a reputation is hard work and the fast pass and acknowledgment from the broader society is your reward. As in this person has more than proved himself, let’s not vet him as much.
This is literally how one of the biggest scandals in academic publishing occurred[1], so... no? Maybe it's a nice way to treat experts when asking them for their opinion, they are experts after all, but we absolutely don't want to give celebrities more leeway than unknowns in research papers where new claims are being made. You better have done the work properly, again, and again, and again. No free passes, no blind…
In this case it looks like his good reputation was falsified from the start? They were unable to prove misconduct in his dissertation only because the data had been destroyed. So consistently missing his misconduct would be more to blame here than riding on a reputation.
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#37How is double blind not the norm? there is just too much room for bias
In my field that would be impossible... people work in collaborations and you know pretty much all of the experiments.
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#38Is anyone surprised by this?
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#39It seems to me that some subjects are so specialized that the group that makes up one's 'peers' is fairly small. How do they have real anonymized reviews when it becomes easy to recognize the writings of the author? The more papers that someone writes, the easier it would be for their peers to recognize the writing style and other quirks that would give the author away.
I have a friend who is somewhat famous in his little research niche. Even when submitting papers for blind review he will do things like deliberately spell some words British and others American to make it harder for peers to figure out who the paper is from. The peer group is indeed small and rivalries happen quickly. Sometimes you know what other labs are doing very similar research and it's a race to publish first.
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