I mean its pretty obvious that nowadays AI is absolutely capable of doing that and some people are just blind or fat finger the keyboard.
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superkret@feddit.de 1 year ago
online study
not peer reviewed
“published” on arxiv (which is a public document server, not a journal)
study and authors not named or linked in the article
tl/dr: “Someone uploaded a .docx and we’re writing about it.”
CookieJarObserver@sh.itjust.works 1 year ago
Pelicanen@sopuli.xyz 1 year ago
I mean, it is The World’s Hardest Game
Zeth0s@lemmy.world 1 year ago
You are overrating peer review. It’s basically a tool to help editors to understand if a paper “sells”, to improve readability and to discard clear garbage.
It almost never impact quality of the results, as reviewers do not redo the work. From the “trustworthy” point of view, peer reviewing is comparable to a biased rng. Google for actual reproducibility of published experiments and peer review biases for more details
brsrklf@compuverse.uk 1 year ago
Peer reviewing is how you know the methodology is not flawed…
Zeth0s@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Unfortunately not. www.nature.com/articles/533452a
Most peer reviewed papers are non reproducible. Peer review has the primary purpose of telling the editor how sellable is a paper in a small community he only superficially knows, and to make it more attractive to that community by suggesting rephrasing of paragraphs, additional references, additional supporting experiment to clarify unclear point.
But it doesn’t guarantees methodology is not flawed. Editor chooses reviewer very superficially, and reviews are mainly driven by biases, and reviewers cannot judge the quality of a research because they do not reproduce it
C4d@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Yes. A senior colleague sometimes tongue-in-cheek referred to it as Pee Review.
barsoap@lemm.ee 1 year ago
I supposed it’s this paper. Most prolific author seems to be Gene Tsudik, h-index of 103. Yeah that’s not “someone”. Also the paper is accepted for USENIX Security 2023, which is actually ongoing right now.
Also CS doesn’t really do academia like other sciences, being somewhere on the intersection of maths, engineering, and tinkering. Shit’s definitely not invalid just because it hasn’t been submitted to a journal this could’ve been a blog post but there’s academics involved so publish or perish applies.