Tim Gowers with a thoughtful article on whether science needs the usual process of formal peer review:https://www.the-tls.co.uk/articles/public/the-end-of-an-error-peer-review/ …
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But finding better ways to democratize feedback might help the not-quite-developed precursor idea to the brilliant idea...
AFAICT just asking for feedback will often get it. A friend with no (undergrad) degree started sending thoughtful emails to senior
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people in his area of interest. Pretty soon he was getting feedback, invitations to visit, etc.
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That's n=1 of course. But in general I think people underestimate how successful they can be with thoughtful requests for comment.
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There's a related point, of course, which is that most people send really unthoughtful requests for comment. He wrote very careful emails
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that closely connected his work to things the people he was writing to were working on: it became about them (and him).
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