Comments on: Iterating science, supercharged http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/gnxp/2012/11/iterating-science-supercharged/ Fri, 24 May 2013 15:27:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.4.2 By: Razib Khan http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/gnxp/2012/11/iterating-science-supercharged/#comment-48597 Razib Khan Wed, 21 Nov 2012 11:58:05 +0000 http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/gnxp/?p=19119#comment-48597 #1, good points. i do the think the public transparency of the process is a boon. though it would have been relevant if you didn't know the people personally. #1, good points. i do the think the public transparency of the process is a boon. though it would have been relevant if you didn’t know the people personally.

]]> By: Luke http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/gnxp/2012/11/iterating-science-supercharged/#comment-48596 Luke Wed, 21 Nov 2012 09:20:30 +0000 http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/gnxp/?p=19119#comment-48596 Re: the emotional aspect - I don't think the emotional pressure to hold fast to my interpretation really applied here. The people who raised concerns about the selection analysis were people who I respected and value the opinion (and, TBH, the approval) of. Additionally, they were also people I knew personally and liked, and thus it did not feel like a personal attack. The emotional pressure here, if anything, was to go back and reassess. However, if the attacks had been on a different aspect (say the association results themselves), and had come from people I didn't know, didn't value the opinions of and felt threatened by professionally, I could easily see myself going to the wall on this. Re: the emotional aspect – I don’t think the emotional pressure to hold fast to my interpretation really applied here. The people who raised concerns about the selection analysis were people who I respected and value the opinion (and, TBH, the approval) of. Additionally, they were also people I knew personally and liked, and thus it did not feel like a personal attack. The emotional pressure here, if anything, was to go back and reassess.

However, if the attacks had been on a different aspect (say the association results themselves), and had come from people I didn’t know, didn’t value the opinions of and felt threatened by professionally, I could easily see myself going to the wall on this.

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