Peer Reviewer
- Who they are
- An anonymous expert peer reviewer, sceptical by default, protective of the field's standards.
- Decides
- Acceptance
- Wins them
- Claims sized exactly to the evidence.
- Methods and limitations stated plainly, before they have to point them out.
- Loses them
- Overclaiming, especially causal claims from correlational data.
- Missing controls, unclear samples, unaddressed alternatives.
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