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Reliability is neither to be expected nor desired in peer review

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Commentary onCicchettiDomenic V. (1991) The reliability of peer review for manuscript and grant submissions: A cross-disciplinary investigation. BBS 14:119–186.

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R. Duncan Luce
R. Duncan Luce
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Department of Cognitive Science, University of California, Irvine, CA 92717 Electronic mail: rdluce@uci.bitnet
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Behavioral and Brain Sciences , Volume 16 , Issue 2 , June 1993, pp. 399 - 400
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