[TYPES] OT: Peer-review in a world with rational scientists

[Dr. Claus-Peter Wirth]

Dear Marco,

I was not at all happy about the high bandwidth of the discussion
on the subject in this list back then,
but this paper is really interesting.

Taken seriously, we should stop peer review and use random selection:
Better quality and less work.

Unless we are so "rational" that we prefer nepotism to science.
But I am afraid that might be actually the case.

Thanks for the most interesting posting,
CP

On 17.09.2010, at 17:19, M.C.A. (Marco) Devillers wrote:

> [ The Types Forum, http://lists.seas.upenn.edu/mailman/listinfo/types-list 
>  ]
>
> A couple of months ago there was a discussion on this list regarding
> (peer-)reviewing processes. Though, with little experience, I had  
> nothing to
> contribute to that discussion, I thought the next paper might be well
> accepted on this list:
>
> "Peer-review in a world with rational scientists: Toward selection  
> of the
> average," Stefan Thurner, Rudolf Hanel.
>
> The arxiv link: http://arxiv.org/abs/1008.4324v1
> The link straight to the article (pdf): http://arxiv.org/pdf/1008.4324v1
>
> Cheers,
>   Marco