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- From: sef@sef-pmax.slisp.cs.cmu.edu
- Subject: Re: IJCAI reviewing
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- Date: Thu, 21 Jan 1993 06:58:50 GMT
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- From: hulthage@morue.usc.edu (Ingemar Hulthage)
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- I have to strongly disagree with Brian Gaines on this issue. None of
- his arguments are even close to convincing me. I find the statement
- that "The refereeing system should never be changed for the sake of
- 'fairness' at the expense of its proper function of quality control"
- outrageous. Fairness versus quality control is a false choice. What
- better guarantee of quality is there than fairness !
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- Fairness is no guarantee at all. Refereeing would be totally fair if the
- referees were denied access to the paper itself, as well as the author's
- identity and the abstract. But quality control would suffer.
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- In my opinion, Brian Gaines is right. There probably is some personal bias
- in refereeing, but we can't effectively hide the identities of authors.
- Even if we could, it would be foolish to deny referees some of the
- information they need in order to assess the value and reliability of the
- paper, just to eliminate some *possible* bias. Pseudo-blind refereeing
- does far more harm than good.
-
- -- Scott
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