Negative take on preprints. IMHO doesn't mention true criticism: feedback will disproportionately be, & already is, given to "better" labs.https://twitter.com/SmallPondSci/status/889440829848395776 …
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yeah, there probably is no solution to the problem of meritocracy if you take that to be the primary problem.
but it's actually a two-fold (or multi-fold) problem here of how preprints are presented, panacea, replacement for PR, etc so many proposals
this has all been touched on quite a lot in this thread and I suggest you take a look rather than me re-hashing it
It's difficult to come up with a remedy for meritocracy's side effects that isn't "let's replace the old boys' club with some other club".
That's why you need to remove prospective systems of meritocracy like impact factors and have a rotating system of privilege in academia..
..lest people become too comfortable and science stale.
To the degree that meritocracy is driven by increasingly severe competition, I don't think "comfortable" is a general threat...
Your point about preprints from elite labs getting most attention is highly credible, but I think it's one instance of overall competition.
"Meritocracy" is 'problem' now, becuase ppl are seing that it has unwanted side effects. But it was 1st how non-white-males got into science
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