Authors’ names have ‘astonishing’ influence on peer reviewers: Study

Re:Authors’ names have ‘astonishing’ influence on peer revie... by WithinReason on Wednesday October 12, 2022 @07:57AM (#33175659)

It's actually you who doesn't understand probabilities. If a woman is twice as likely to make a discovery but women are only 5% of researchers, then it's both true that:

1. most discoveries are made by males

2. it is reasonable to give larger weight to new female-done research

contradicting you point.

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Re:Authors’ names have ‘astonishing’ influence on peer revie... by erfgh on Thursday October 13, 2022 @05:04AM (#33188801)

But you pulled those number out of thin air. The fact of the matter is that if I pick one research paper at random out of all the papers written by men and I pick another research paper at random out of all the papers written by women the former will be of higher average quality.

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Re:Authors’ names have ‘astonishing’ influence on peer revie... by WithinReason on Thursday October 13, 2022 @05:15AM (#33188870)

Did you just pull that out of thin air?

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