Re:Argonne National Lab is attempting to replicate LK-99
by nextos on Monday July 31, 2023 @01:33AM
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I don't see it this way. Juniors will be rarely appointed as reviewers by Nature.
Double-blinding gives unknown groups and juniors the chance to publish at top venues, which are incredibly biased towards big-name universities and big-name groups.
And while double blinding sounds nice in theory I'm not so convinced it is that useful in practice, because it requires the reviewer to play along and pretend they can't figure it out from the text alone: if they are able to do that reliably they can probably be trusted to keep an open mind anyway.
Reliable blinding of the author would mean having them consciously copy the style of others and avoiding citing their own previous work, which would be very hard in a small sub-field since they are by definition a sizeable fraction of it!