Comments on: Put Your Blinders On When It Comes to Peer Review http://punctuative.com/2008/01/23/put-your-blinders-on-when-it-comes-to-peer-review/ Fri, 04 Jul 2008 19:25:03 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5.1 By: Rob http://punctuative.com/2008/01/23/put-your-blinders-on-when-it-comes-to-peer-review/#comment-46807 Rob Mon, 28 Jan 2008 14:11:28 +0000 http://punctuative.com/2008/01/23/put-your-blinders-on-when-it-comes-to-peer-review/#comment-46807 Matt, Part of this too, comes from false comparisons. People are hyped online, and portrayed inaccurately. People who sit on panels are less likely to be experts, and more likely to be friends of the conference organizer, or of some other panelist. People with blogs that seem powerful and influential may not really be that widely read, or that financially lucrative. False online presences only make the problem of comparison that much worse for us all. Matt,
Part of this too, comes from false comparisons. People are hyped online, and portrayed inaccurately. People who sit on panels are less likely to be experts, and more likely to be friends of the conference organizer, or of some other panelist. People with blogs that seem powerful and influential may not really be that widely read, or that financially lucrative. False online presences only make the problem of comparison that much worse for us all.

]]> By: Edward Vielmetti http://punctuative.com/2008/01/23/put-your-blinders-on-when-it-comes-to-peer-review/#comment-46584 Edward Vielmetti Sun, 27 Jan 2008 05:35:33 +0000 http://punctuative.com/2008/01/23/put-your-blinders-on-when-it-comes-to-peer-review/#comment-46584 Transparency comes in a lot of forms, not all of which is wonderful. There's room for many varieties of disclosure, with the right form being some parts transparent, some translucent, some opaque, and some some kind of weird liquid crystal that switches from opaque to transparent when the right voltage is applied. As to "making what your peers make", a big piece of that is deciding where you want to live and then living there instead of living somewhere else. If you live in a college town, and you can calibrate your career to live most years on a new graduate's starting salary for the best job in town, you can learn a whole lot - enough so that 2 or 3 years out of 10 you can do some crazy commute to the far corners of the earth and bring in a lot of money. Transparency comes in a lot of forms, not all of which is wonderful. There’s room for many varieties of disclosure, with the right form being some parts transparent, some translucent, some opaque, and some some kind of weird liquid crystal that switches from opaque to transparent when the right voltage is applied.

As to “making what your peers make”, a big piece of that is deciding where you want to live and then living there instead of living somewhere else. If you live in a college town, and you can calibrate your career to live most years on a new graduate’s starting salary for the best job in town, you can learn a whole lot - enough so that 2 or 3 years out of 10 you can do some crazy commute to the far corners of the earth and bring in a lot of money.

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