When reviewers know authors' identities (vs. blind), they pick high status authors more. Reviewers=human=biased http://www.pnas.org/content/early/2017/11/13/1707323114.full.pdf …
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It is sad, Dr. Guest :( As scientists it is your job to educate people. I am not a scientist but if a scientist told me not be biased against someone or nepotism is bad and then did exactly the opposite themselves, I wouldn't be very happy about it.
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It's not my job exactly to educate people but to do basic research. Either way science is full of examples of bias from famous to infamous to banal.
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Agreed. And my apologies, I did not mean you when I said it's your job.
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What is the point of becoming a scientist or studying science if we are not eliminating these biases or encouraging young people to identify these biases?
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No disagreement there.
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