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Aug 30, 2019 • 6 tweets • 2 min read
Been thinking about the connection between the publication/peer review process and the (toxic?) culture of defensiveness/combativeness in academia.
We’ve set up a system where scholars invests a lot in their ideas (e.g., run studies, write manuscripts)...
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... and then are put in a position to defend those ideas from reviewers' critiques when the work is done.
Essentially, we incentivize them to be combatants and staunch defenders of their ideas, rewarding them for digging their heals in when faced with criticism or new ideas.
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