Why single out open peer review? In standard peer review reviewers know gender of author too.
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Because open science is proposing a new system, which is a good chance to address problems with old.
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I'm with you on that
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Glad to hear, excellent!
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What should we do?
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About avoiding bias in the new system? I'm not a peer review expert. Research the effects of different systems on bias and then then think.
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It seems to me, that any new system should seek to be an environment in which biases based on people's names, so gender and race, are less
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pronounced. The only way I see that happening is to use evidence-based evaluation of different systems.
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Totally agree! And the same applies to code review: https://www.bustle.com/articles/141667-github-users-find-womens-code-better-than-mens-until-they-know-who-wrote-it … (a bit older but I guess we all know that this didn't change)
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Yeah, really depressing stuff.
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Indeed. Thank you for sharing your thoughts on this though! On
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improve the situation. Although I think that tech can't solve a social problem, I'm convinced that it can help.
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(even if only by raising awareness)
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Yeah, although I think allowed a more diverse set of people to get through serves as role models to the younger generation etc etc
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*allowing
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