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It's amazing the paper got published in the first place – the idea that comparing open source codebases could tell you all that much about the underlying langua
by muglug 7y ago
It's amazing the paper got published in the first place – the idea that comparing open source codebases could tell you all that much about the underlying language is sort of bizarre when comparing such different projects to begin with.
- pron 7y agoIt is not the role of peer-review to do this kind of gatekeeping (although it would be nice if it could filter out bad methodology and data errors). This is the role of exchanges just like the one discussed here.
- muglug 7y agoJournals can reject a paper on editorial grounds – for example, Nature doesn't publish every valid paper submitted to it.
- pron 7y agoTrue, but it is not the role of peer-review as a whole to prevent papers with whose premise you can argue from being published anywhere. The goal of peer-review is to filter out papers that use bad methodology. Debates over premises is carried out in other papers.