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Traditional peer review can filter out complete crackpot garbage, but it empirically is not effective at improving paper quality. Just because it may have filte
by cultus 8y ago
Traditional peer review can filter out complete crackpot garbage, but it empirically is not effective at improving paper quality. Just because it may have filtered out some wrong things you said does not mean it is effective at it in general.
Open, non-anonymous comments on preprint services hold much more promise. Peer review without anonymous gatekeepers.
- xamuel 8y agoI've had papers greatly improved by peer review. Maybe mathematics is an outlier. All my best papers were significantly informed by reviewers. I've had cases where my initial thought was "this reviewer is an idiot!!!" When I calmed down and forced myself to give them the benefit of the doubt, I ended up realizing they were right, and they improved my papers.
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