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A rational scale of critical editorial evaluation

JUN 01, 1967

DOI: 10.1063/1.4725726

Van Derck Fréchette
Ralph H. Condit

THE value of the criterion of minimum astonishment as a guide to scientific appraisal has been cited by Gilman. While Gilman deplores the quasiqualitative inexactness of the criterion he offers no hope for a quantitative treatment. However, the statement of the generalized principle together with epistemological considerations have led us to quantize the parameter fundamental to its quantitative treatment in the special case of editorial scientific comment.

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Van Derck Fréchette. State University of New York College of Ceramics at Alfred University.

Ralph H. Condit. University of California Lawrence Radiation Laboratory, Livermore, Calif..

© 1967. American Institute of Physics
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Volume 20, Number 6

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