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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Item Type:	Preprint
Creators:	Creators Email ORCID Heesen, Remco remco.heesen@uwa.edu.au 0000-0003-3823-944X
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
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
Date:	24 April 2019
URI:	http://philsci-archive.pitt.edu/id/eprint/15930

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