Wolfgang Huber
@wkhuber.bsky.social
Statistician, Computational Biologist, R |> Bioconductor
https://www.huber.embl.de
Textbook: Modern Statistics for Modern Biology https://www.huber.embl.de/msmb/ (with @sherlockpholmes.bsky.social)
https://www.huber.embl.de
Textbook: Modern Statistics for Modern Biology https://www.huber.embl.de/msmb/ (with @sherlockpholmes.bsky.social)
This is a case were Costly Signaling Theory applies*:
readers will learn not to pay attention to the literal content, but whether the referee seems to have spent a genuine effort.
*: "high costs to convey information make signals reliable, as only those with quality can afford to signal"
readers will learn not to pay attention to the literal content, but whether the referee seems to have spent a genuine effort.
*: "high costs to convey information make signals reliable, as only those with quality can afford to signal"
November 14, 2025 at 8:32 PM
This is a case were Costly Signaling Theory applies*:
readers will learn not to pay attention to the literal content, but whether the referee seems to have spent a genuine effort.
*: "high costs to convey information make signals reliable, as only those with quality can afford to signal"
readers will learn not to pay attention to the literal content, but whether the referee seems to have spent a genuine effort.
*: "high costs to convey information make signals reliable, as only those with quality can afford to signal"
Hard to draw the line. Ultimately, everyone is contingent. But he got the Nobel prize in 1921 for the photoelectric effect, as the committee apparently found Special (1905) & General (1915) Relativity still too speculative. Many of his contemporary colleagues refused relativity till the (their) end.
November 8, 2025 at 1:30 PM
Hard to draw the line. Ultimately, everyone is contingent. But he got the Nobel prize in 1921 for the photoelectric effect, as the committee apparently found Special (1905) & General (1915) Relativity still too speculative. Many of his contemporary colleagues refused relativity till the (their) end.
The individual impact (à la ablation study) of someone who is propelled by the stream of the zeitgeist, and whose actions aim to deny a lot of other people to participate in the scientific enterprise may well be: negative.
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November 8, 2025 at 9:23 AM
The individual impact (à la ablation study) of someone who is propelled by the stream of the zeitgeist, and whose actions aim to deny a lot of other people to participate in the scientific enterprise may well be: negative.
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IMHO, Einstein is a plausible example for the hero view, whereas in many other cases, zeitgeist applies: Newton/Leibniz, Darwin/Wallace, Schrödinger/Heisenberg, Bell/Gray ...
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November 8, 2025 at 9:23 AM
IMHO, Einstein is a plausible example for the hero view, whereas in many other cases, zeitgeist applies: Newton/Leibniz, Darwin/Wallace, Schrödinger/Heisenberg, Bell/Gray ...
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