Not exact matches
Talk
about management
by committee: one group of more than 800 scientist authors to cope with more than 9,000 scientific publications on climate change and more than 20,000 comments from «expert
reviewers» (plus another 30,000 or so from various
other interested parties.)
Very little of the problems raised
by the peer
reviewers (as well as
by Torlakson and Michael Kirst, who chairs the Golden State's board of education, in their own letter to the administration
about the plan) was mentioned
by any of the Beltway players and
other policy gurus commenting last week
about the Obama Administration's decision.
Now,
other reviewers have weighed in — and most are enthusiastic
about the idiosyncratic 1,100 page doorstop with more than 200 essays
by contemporary writers and academics, including novelist Walter Mosley writing on what it means to be «hardboiled,» novelist Mary Gaitskill on why Norman Mailer moves her, and humorist Sarah Vowell on «American Gothic» and kitsch.
In the case of Amazon, they rank their
reviewers with a complex algorithm which factors in the amount of reviews made, the frequency that reviews are made, the quality (helpfulness) of reviews made as deemed
by others as well as a myriad of
other complex little elements which the rest of us will probably never know
about.
Great story
about love, grief, and what we are willing to risk for
others (Michele N.) Hepworth writes with compassion and understanding of the impact of this cruel disease on all who know and love the patients (Helen S.)(Reviewed
by BookBrowse First Impression
Reviewers).
I don't know if this was specific to my handset or something experienced
by other reviewers, but it was certainly unexpected, given the specs and price of the PRIV, and it occurred often enough for me to make a mental note
about it and include it in my review.
The idea of there being scientists on the one hand, opposed
by irrational sceptics on the
other has been established so concretely that few editors, peer -
reviewers or journalists even bother to ask questions
about the content of the consensus, much less
about how it is contradicted
by the substance of climate sceptics» arguments.
Just as the secret ballot system relies on anonymity to prevent individuals from being pressured
by others during the act of voting, the peer review system depends on anonymity to prevent
reviewers from having to think
about how their statements would be viewed
by a much larger audience — an audience for which the review is not intended in the first place.