Peer Review, by Gary Night. https://flic.kr/p/c2WH2E
Background:
- I reviewed Alice Goffman’s book, On The Run.
- I complained that her dissertation was not made public, despite being awarded the American Sociological Association’s dissertation prize. I proposed a rule change for the association, requiring that the winning dissertation be “publicly available through a suitable academic repository by the time of the ASA meeting at which the award is granted.” (The rule change is moving through the process.)
- When her dissertation was released, I complained about the rationale for the delay.
- My critique of the survey that was part of her research grew into a formal comment (PDF) submitted to American Sociological Review.
In this post I don’t have anything to add about Alice Goffman’s work. This is about what we can learn from this and other incidents to improve our social science and its contribution to the wider social discourse. As Goffman’s TED Talk passed 1…
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