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by nernst 3778 days ago
Felt this was glossed over. It's all well and good to not be too harsh for the reasons they mentioned, but ultimately the point is to 'peer review' the science.

In fact I would say an important "mistake reviewers make" is ... not actually doing much work. I've seen some appalling 2-3 line comments like "seems fine", even from senior academics. That's not even to talk about problems with misunderstood p-values, not reading the algorithm closely, not walking through the proof manually, and so on.