Peer reviewers are too hard

Peer reviewers often make unfounded statistical criticisms that waste time and sap the morale of researchers, says Bacchetti (p 1271). Why they do this, he says, comes from a pervasive desire to find something to criticisea concept overvalued in Western society. Additionally, there is the notion that finding flaws is the key to high quality peer review. Changing the culture of peer review, particularly by allowing fellow reviewers to rate reviews and editors to comment on their helpfulness or authors on their constructiveness, could lead to less pressure to criticise and less statistical dogmatism.

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