Heesen, Remco (2019) The Necessity of Commensuration Bias in Grant Peer Review. [Preprint]
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Peer reviewers at many funding agencies and scientific journals are asked to score submissions both on individual criteria and overall. The overall scores should be some kind of aggregate of the criteria scores. Carole Lee identifies this as a potential locus for bias to enter the peer review process, which she calls commensuration bias. Here I view the aggregation of scores through the lens of social choice theory. I argue that in many situations, especially when reviewing grant proposals, it is impossible to avoid commensuration bias.
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Keywords: | Philosophy of science Commensuration bias Peer review Social epistemology Social choice theory | ||||||
Subjects: | General Issues > Decision Theory General Issues > Ethical Issues General Issues > Social Epistemology of Science |
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Depositing User: | Remco Heesen | ||||||
Date Deposited: | 25 Apr 2019 12:51 | ||||||
Last Modified: | 25 Apr 2019 12:51 | ||||||
Item ID: | 15930 | ||||||
Subjects: | General Issues > Decision Theory General Issues > Ethical Issues General Issues > Social Epistemology of Science |
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Date: | 24 April 2019 | ||||||
URI: | http://philsci-archive.pitt.edu/id/eprint/15930 |
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