Oh I totally meant just as a service people MIGHT ACTUALLY WANT TO HAVE and do BEFORE they do the research - thus going through the INTENDED study, BEFORE they do all the work without addressing the issues in question, rather than afterwards.
This, obviously, is predicated on me assuming that even a major minority of people doing studies actually want to do serious, useful, field-helpful research on real things, and thus would LIKE someone to make sure their study design and assumptions and orientation makes sense before they go through the whole process of actually DOING IT. Peer review is, tbh, much more like being adjudicated as a performer: you've already done the work and hopefully it's not totally bullshit but you have to submit it to the panel and see what their judgement is.
I'm talking much more about the sense of what would be, in performance, a masterclass (except without claiming I'm a 'master' as such, because some elements of the metaphor don't go across directly) or a workshop: you know the performance piece well enough to run through it but you're still solidly early in figuring out all the details and directions.
Which among other things would hopefully actually SAVE MONEY AND WASTED TIME later on, before you ever get to the peer review judgement stage.
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This, obviously, is predicated on me assuming that even a major minority of people doing studies actually want to do serious, useful, field-helpful research on real things, and thus would LIKE someone to make sure their study design and assumptions and orientation makes sense before they go through the whole process of actually DOING IT. Peer review is, tbh, much more like being adjudicated as a performer: you've already done the work and hopefully it's not totally bullshit but you have to submit it to the panel and see what their judgement is.
I'm talking much more about the sense of what would be, in performance, a masterclass (except without claiming I'm a 'master' as such, because some elements of the metaphor don't go across directly) or a workshop: you know the performance piece well enough to run through it but you're still solidly early in figuring out all the details and directions.
Which among other things would hopefully actually SAVE MONEY AND WASTED TIME later on, before you ever get to the peer review judgement stage.