Open peer review needs to address: "reviewers cannot judge scientific merit independent of gender."
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https://www.wired.com/story/why-men-dont-believe-the-data-on-gender-bias-in-science/amp …
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Replying to @o_guest
Why single out open peer review? In standard peer review reviewers know gender of author too.
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Replying to @mbeisen
Because open science is proposing a new system, which is a good chance to address problems with old.
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Replying to @mbeisen
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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Because the open in open science is also about promoting diversity. Opening science up to more authors who are just as capable but have been
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less able to (easily) publish than people with privileged gender and ethnic group.
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This work shouldn't be expected of URMs though, this is something all of us need to work on.
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Thanks for asking for my opinion on what we should do. Many other voices have expressed their worries on this and issue too.
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