162: Status bias in peer review
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The Nobel Prize in Experimental Psychology, Is It Really a Working Paper? Yeah, Yeah, I'm a Normal Guy.
"I'm tremendously suspicious of it because what it concluded is what I already think," he says. "Because I am a perverted son of a bitch that has come to, I've managed to get to the point where I go, I've always thought that was the case and then immediately swing myself by a kind of learned reflex into, and now I don't trust it at all." He's never encountered a paper in review from someone who was quite that fancy. 'Who else can you even think of? Kahneman?' she asks. "'Vernon Smith' ... one of the very, very few economists I've heard of,' they say.'
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