Dog Park Sex and Why “Refereed Vs. Non-Refereed” Doesn’t Measure Quality

My previous post explained why "refereed” publications—those vetted by expert academic gatekeepers—do not reliably signal scholarly value, nor “non-refereed” publications a lack of quality—despite the deep structural bias in academia toward assuming that they do. The distinction “refereed or not” is an independent variable with approximately random correlation—in networks where I work—with other variable we …