I would have said you and I just both got unlucky, but 3 in a row? That's crazy.
I also find it fascinating that every time, the second referee passes it through. I would think that typically, if the first referee decides something that ends up being the final decision (whether or not it's passed to a second referee). Is it that they pick the second referee more carefully, or that the first referee barely looks at it while the second one looks more carefully? Or is it that the second referee sees that you have a good response to the first referee and doesn't want to be in the same situation of "getting schooled"? I found myself wondering all of these after seeing what happened to me.
I also found myself questioning whether I had actually done anything worthy of publication after seeing the first referee's report... even though everyone else who had proofread my paper told me the referee was crazy, I had this voice in the back of my head that kept saying... "maybe he's the only one who looked at it carefully enough?"
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Date: 2009-03-26 09:45 pm (UTC)I would have said you and I just both got unlucky, but 3 in a row? That's crazy.
I also find it fascinating that every time, the second referee passes it through. I would think that typically, if the first referee decides something that ends up being the final decision (whether or not it's passed to a second referee). Is it that they pick the second referee more carefully, or that the first referee barely looks at it while the second one looks more carefully? Or is it that the second referee sees that you have a good response to the first referee and doesn't want to be in the same situation of "getting schooled"? I found myself wondering all of these after seeing what happened to me.
I also found myself questioning whether I had actually done anything worthy of publication after seeing the first referee's report... even though everyone else who had proofread my paper told me the referee was crazy, I had this voice in the back of my head that kept saying... "maybe he's the only one who looked at it carefully enough?"