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Re:Authors’ names have ‘astonishing’ influence on peer revie... by diob on Tuesday October 11, 2022 @10:55PM (#33172218)
There was a study some time back where they set folks up in groups, then had them listen and vote on bands / music.

Each group trended towards catapulting a single band / musician, but it always just depended on which one in the group got the momentum first.

I wish I could find the study again but it's hard to google for.

Pretty eye opening.

Re:Authors’ names have ‘astonishing’ influence on peer revie... by dlg on Tuesday October 11, 2022 @11:28PM (#33172446)
Salganik MJ, Dodds S, Watts DJ Experimental Study of Inequality and Unpredictability in an Artificial Cultural Market

https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.1121066

Re:Authors’ names have ‘astonishing’ influence on peer revie... by diob on Wednesday October 12, 2022 @12:59AM (#33173043)
Thank you for finding this, I've been asked for the source before and could never dig it up!