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Asking Authors About Their Own Papers
TMLR Editor-in-Chief Nihar B. Shah interviewed authors of 10 papers slated for desk rejection; many could not answer basic questions about their own submissions as desk-reject rates rose from ~6% to ~53%.
6 min · 1,438 words
The Economics of Scientific Publishing
NYU Stern’s Vishal Singh maps scholarly publishing economics across 13 years and 4.2M articles a year: unpaid manuscripts and peer review, margins above Apple’s, and why third-party intermediaries prove so hard to dislodge.
16 min · 3,775 words
One Click Away: AI Tutoring with Khanmigo in a Two-Year School Experiment
A two-year cluster randomized trial in 18 Tennessee middle schools finds that assigning students to Khan Academy with its Khanmigo AI tutor raised math achievement by about 0.06 to 0.08 standard deviations a year, similar to Khan Academy without AI, because students rarely engaged the tutor in substantive dialogue.
1 min · 262 words