korrents

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Reviewers can tell the obviously good from the obviously bad, but there is a messy middle where they cannot tell at all.

Drawn from what José Luis Ricón said

What these subjects mean

taste Whether good and bad exist in made things, and how a maker comes to tell them apart.

peer review How science checks itself, and the case that the checking mostly does not work.

What José Luis Ricón actually said

  1. José Luis Ricón Engineer and writer at Nintil
    The way I see this is that reviewers can identify what's obviously not great and what is obviously great (Perhaps identifying the latter is easier than the former). But there is a "messy middle" where it is unclear what to fund.

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