Reviewing other’s work for the purpose of scoring it does not advance science. Scoring work does not help authors improve it. Scoring does not help a work’s audience understand the work, identify its limitations, or evaluate its credibility. Scoring does, however, undermine our objectivity as peer reviewers because scoring activates our biases. We are predisposed to like works that are familiar in approach, language, and style to our own work; we trust results more easily when they confir...
