[Corpora-List] why LREC2012 NOT blind-reviewed?

[Yorick Wilks]

They are not symmetrical forms of knowing. All proposals--or all I know--are reviewed knowing who wrote them, but the writers do not know who reviewed them. This is thought normal--though I personally never mind being identified as a reviewer. I dont see why it has to be different for papers rather than proposals, especially as the latter are often more career-significant. And, as I said, earlier: we usually DO know who wrote anonymised papers, so it's all fake anyway.
YW


On 30 Sep 2011, at 17:26, Alexander Osherenko wrote:

> Maybe, a blind-review can be understood as some sort of justice. I "don't" know the authors, so it is fair that the authors don't know who is reviewing my paper. Otherwise, everybody knew who says: "I never saw anybody do anything like that before."
> 
> 2011/9/30 John F. Sowa <sowa at bestweb.net>
> On 9/30/2011 11:27 AM, Yorick Wilks wrote:
> The whole blind-review business is a huge nonsense: I rarely meet a
> paper to review where i cannot identify the authors from a careful trawl
> of hidden signals and the references. Trying to make a paper genuinely
> anonymous is almost impossible if one has a body of past work and
> publication to link it to---the mental gymnastics required are
> undignified and best avoided. LRECs reputation has grown steadily and it
> will be the quality of its papers that sustain it--there is no evidence
> at all anonymity would improve matters in the least.
> 
> I agree.
> 
> I would also add another point about the reviewing process:  most papers
> are reviewed by people who work in the same paradigm.  Inevitably, they
> give higher scores to papers that conform to their favorite paradigm.
> 
> A colleague of mine received the following *negative* comment about
> a paper submitted to a major conference:
> 
>   "I never saw anybody do anything like that before."
> 
> Fortunately, the paper slipped through the cracks and was accepted
> despite that review.  It ended up as a widely cited "minor classic".
> 
> John
> 
> 
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