{"id":262,"date":"2007-12-13T21:19:41","date_gmt":"2007-12-14T02:19:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.randomideas.net\/?p=262"},"modified":"2007-12-13T21:19:41","modified_gmt":"2007-12-14T02:19:41","slug":"more-is-less","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/randomideas.net\/?p=262","title":{"rendered":"More is less"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m noticing that the more information you put into a paper, the more the reviewers demand (example: add an ROC curve to your new results in addition to class accuracies and suddenly they ask why you didn&#8217;t compute one for the old results that you&#8217;re citing as well!) This is probably why papers also tend to get needlessly long, which was the subject of another post some months back. Sort of stupid, but that&#8217;s what you get for getting people started on your ideas. The ironic thing is that the more a paper gets people to think about similar issues, the more successful it probably is &#8211; and yet because of this phenomenon, the less likely it is to be accepted!<\/p>\n<p>If this hypothesis is correct, it would not only indicate that peer review causes rejection of perfectly good papers <i>spontaneously<\/i>, but that it actively <i>seeks<\/i> good papers to reject.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m noticing that the more information you put into a paper, the more the reviewers demand (example: add an ROC curve to your new results in addition to class accuracies and suddenly they ask why you didn&#8217;t compute one for the old results that you&#8217;re citing as well!) This is probably why papers also tend [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-262","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-research"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/randomideas.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/262","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/randomideas.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/randomideas.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/randomideas.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/randomideas.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=262"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/randomideas.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/262\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/randomideas.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=262"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/randomideas.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=262"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/randomideas.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=262"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}