Best of #econtwitter - Week of October 26, 2025: paper summaries
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Peer review
11 min read
The article references the academic review process having 'inefficiently gone past the optimum,' directly discussing problems with peer review in economics and academia
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Large language model
19 min read
The article discusses variance and bias across LLMs versus human reviewers, making the technical foundations of these models directly relevant context
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Algorithmic bias
12 min read
The article explicitly contrasts bias in LLM versus human evaluation, making this concept about systematic errors in automated systems highly relevant
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Idiosyncratic favorites
^😬. That is about variance across LLMs; here’s bias on LLM vs. human:
^this is what people mean when they say the review process has inefficiently gone past the optimum
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