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Re:Authors’ names have ‘astonishing’ influence on peer revie... by TheSpiceIsLife on Tuesday October 11, 2022 @08:24PM (#33171092)
Old news from 2016

Jobseekers with Anglo-Saxon, easy to pronounce and common names are the most likely to get to the interview stage compared to candidates with unfamiliar names, according to research by the Australian National University published in the Oxford Bulletin of Economics and Statistics.

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/business/news/unusual-nam...

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Re:Authors’ names have ‘astonishing’ influence on peer revie... by anonym29 on Tuesday October 11, 2022 @08:40PM (#33171219)
Way to crap on a joke and not even do a good job at it.

(Anglo-Saxon | easy to pronounce | common names) != Nobel Prizewinner names

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Re:Authors’ names have ‘astonishing’ influence on peer revie... by respinal on Tuesday October 11, 2022 @08:34PM (#33171164)
"Nobel and Novice: Author Prominence Affects Peer Review" https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=4190976
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Re:Authors’ names have ‘astonishing’ influence on peer revie... by sportslife on Tuesday October 11, 2022 @10:50PM (#33172175)
Surely they didn't mean actual Anglo-Saxon names, right? Those name are so challenging to the modern english-hearing ear.

https://www.behindthename.com/names/usage/anglo-saxon

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Re:Authors’ names have ‘astonishing’ influence on peer revie... by triceratops on Tuesday October 11, 2022 @11:18PM (#33172373)
Æðelwulf wrote a heck of a quicksort on the whiteboard under the gun last week.
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Re:Authors’ names have ‘astonishing’ influence on peer revie... by TheSpiceIsLife on Wednesday October 12, 2022 @12:09AM (#33172728)
What would Žižek say?

"No no no, within which historical context does it even make sense to ask this question? No? You see?"

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Re:Authors’ names have ‘astonishing’ influence on peer revie... by pyuser583 on Tuesday October 11, 2022 @11:01PM (#33172257)
I was really confused because when I last looked at academic job postings it was in Medieval Studies.

“Jobseekers with Anglo-Saxon” means “candidates who speak Anglo-Saxon.”

And I’m like “I thought that was just a medieval studies thing, but I guess the older languages really do help …”

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