Also: how do you identify a work as peer reviewed?

  • hendrik@palaver.p3x.de
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    2 hours ago

    Though, that’s not peer review. What you’re describing is reproducibility. And that’s the very minimum to qualify as science. If it doesn’t describe the experiment well enough so an expert can follow it… It’s not even proper science.

    Peer review means, several expert in that domain already took some time to go through it and point out flaws, comment on the methodology and gave a recommendation to either publish it or fix mistakes. It’s not the ability to do it, but that it actually already happened. And it has to be other researchers from the same field.

    And there is even another possible step after that, if an independent other research group decides to reproduce the experiment and confirm and verify the results.

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      31 minutes ago

      if its peer reviewed.

      You kinda glossed right over that didnt you? Maybe an edit is in your future?

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      2 hours ago

      I know what peer review is, its just that peer reviewed things also tend to be scientific studies. I mean I know there are studies of studies and such.

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        1 hour ago

        Fair enough. Maybe we had a different understanding of OP’s question. I took it to mean, how can I find out a given article/paper has been reviewed… And that’s not done by looking if it looks scientific, but if the review process has happened.

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          30 minutes ago

          Has nothing to do with OPs question. You missed the very first sentence to the comment your first responded to