"One trick I use to avoid status bias is to keep myself blind to the authors' identities" @siminevazire
http://www.nature.com/news/our-obsession-with-eminence-warps-research-1.22251 …
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Surely it's very scary for ECRs if they are openly new and naive (ie their name is obviously of an unknown)?
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Also I don't feel these pressures or stresses myself because of my personality in this specific thing, so it's good to listen to others.
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But women or people with "foreign" names could easily be treated worse because of open review, you can imagine that right?
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Nobody will be treated worse in open peer review, quite the opposite. Ask editors. Problem is, if there is one, with more leniency.
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I am an editor; there is much evidence of biases in the review process which are alleviated by blind review. also aware of my own biases.
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wow, you tweet's popularity and me being its only critic suggests there is nothing wrong with traditional editorial practices. Glad to hear!
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I'm not sure anybody has proposed current editorial practises are OK. In fact, quite the opposite. We are pointing out it's biased often.
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It's a more subtle point we are making: any changes need to be borne out of a serious evaluation of the systemic issues.
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Well, one-way blind peer reviews already lead authors to plan revenge on those they suspect if being their reviewers. Science runs on fear.
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Open review doesn't fix that
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Yeah, vendetta can be planned even better if you know who did it.
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