NIPS & double blind reviewing

[isbell@cc.gatech.edu]

Well, it's a good thing that life isn't fair.  What a horrible burden to
carry, knowing that you deserve everything that ever happens to you.

Anyway, it strikes me that bias need not be a bad thing (insert bias v
variance joke in here), but it's probably best kept at the editor/PC level,
not at the reviewer level.  The only real cost of blind reviewing for the
author is that it's a pain to make a good faith effort to hide one's
identity.  The only real cost to the reviewer is that the author's identity
might actually be genuinely relevant... but how often is that the case?

Peace.
--
Charles L. Isbell
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