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November 10, 2013, 12:38:41 PM |
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Don't count on peer review to save the day. Even in the best case, it is often faulty. Peer review on this kind of paper is especially sketchy. The paper will be reviewed by computer scientists, but is fundamentally addressing an economics question. They will scrutinize the algorithm intensively, but will ignore economic modelling mistakes made by the author. I expect it would slip through.
Once there was a famous economics paper published in a top journal that claimed that the higher ratio of boys to girls in India and China was due to Hepatitis B.
Peer review failed completely on that one. But once it was published, Taiwanese epidemiologists obliterated it post-haste. This is a general problem with cross-disciplinary research. Peer review fails if you don't use the appropriate peers.
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