Tag: Campbell’s Law

Team of scientists working in a laboratory, carefully conducting experiments and analyzing data. Generative AI

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Denyse O'Leary
Date
January 17, 2024

Categorized
Peer Review

Tagged
Campbell’s Law, Carole Hooven, Goodhart’s Law, Laszlo Bencze}

A Case Study in Why Peer Review May Be Unreformable

_{McIntosh and Hudson Vitale illustrate, by their very zeal to eliminate pro-life researchers, the built-in corruption of the peer review process} _{Denyse O'Leary
January 17, 2024

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Peer Review}

The excruciating difficulty for peer review is Goodhart’s Law: “When a measure becomes a target, it ceases to be a good measure.” Bias makes it all worse.

Can Machines Think?

_{George Montañez
October 3, 2019

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What do computer scientists say about the ability of machines to think? Alan Turing, the father of modern computer science, tackled the question in 1950 and proposed the Turing test as an answer. Is the Turing test important today? Robert J. Marks discusses the Turing test with Dr. George Montañez. Show Notes 00:55 | Introducing Dr. George Montañez, Iris and Read More ›

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Robert J. Marks
Date
July 18, 2019

Categorized
Education, Peer Review

Tagged
academia, Campbell’s Law, citation, Featured, Goodhart’s Law, Impact factor, Longform}

Why It’s So Hard To Reform Peer Review

_{Robert J. Marks: Reformers are battling numerical laws that govern how incentives work. Know your enemy!} _{Robert J. Marks
July 18, 2019

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Education, Peer Review}

Measurement creates a temptation to achieve a measurable goal by less than totally honest means. As in physics, the simple act of measuring invariably disturbs what you are trying to measure.