
162: Status bias in peer review
Everything Hertz
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Are You Low Status?
I wonder if you'd think differently if you were from a much more parochial field. Of which there are still many. I have a friend who's a biologist. There are three labs that work on the particular phenomenon that he works on. One, two, three. So he knows everyone. And it's always peers. He says, they're there you go. Now someone with that experience would have no emotional valence with this at all. You can't get your workout in the fancy venues or you can'tget your workout full stop because it's getting rejected. It's harder for your work to get reviewed in the first place. But now with preprints, which will
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