Daily Spotlight on Education 04/23/2010
SEcond International Symposium on Peer Reviewing
Just got this in my inbox. I think this may interest some of you out there. Bottom line is that research is evolving!
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As you know, only 8% members of the Scientific Research Society agreed that 'peer review works well as it is.' (Chubin and Hackett, 1990; p.192)
"A recent U.S. Supreme Court decision and an analysis of the peer review system substantiate complaints about this fundamental aspect of scientific research." (Horrobin, 2001)
Horrobin concludes that peer review "is a non-validated charade whose processes generate results little better than does chance." (Horrobin, 2001) This has been statistically proven and reported by an increasing number of journal editors.
But, "Peer Review is one of the sacred pillars of the scientific edifice" (Goodstein, 2000), it is a necessary condition in quality assurance for Scientific/Engineering publications, and "Peer Review is central to the organization of modern science…why not apply scientific [and engineering] methods to the peer review process" (Horrobin, 2001)."Sudden Acceleration Decelerating
This is a great article for psychology or current events classes to discuss. How many people have seen the news media publicly acknowledge misreporting in the Toyota Acceleration series of articles?
As with so many things, all it takes is one report to cause mass hysteria.
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