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Robin Hanson: Status and Our Forager Future

From the New World

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Is Peer Review the Right Standard for Academic Research?

Academia's main product and selling is association with credentialed impressiveness. And peer review makes more sense for this product, including unusually high standards of rigor. "Excessively high standards of Rigor produce high estimates of impressiveness," he says.

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