Friday, November 30, 2007

The true meaning of peer review

from Cosma Shalizi:
passing peer review is better understood as saying a paper is not obviously wrong, not obviously redundant and not obviously boring, rather than as saying it's correct, innovative and important.
Of course, the contrapositive of this is that an obviously wrong, redundant and boring paper has some nonzero chance of being rejected ;)

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