Duncan Sabien once ran the inverse experiment. He made a separate account to see how his posts would do without his reputation. The account only has one post still up, but iirc there used to be many more (tens). They performed similarly well to posts under his own name. Cool idea!
[plausibly I’m getting parts of the story wrong and someone who was around then will correct me]
i’ve thought big names should do this for conference papers to keep conferences honest (peer review is anonymous but as i understand it it’s extremely obvious when a big name has written a paper)
idea: popular authors should occasionally write preregistered intentionally subtly bad posts as an epistemic health check
Duncan Sabien once ran the inverse experiment. He made a separate account to see how his posts would do without his reputation. The account only has one post still up, but iirc there used to be many more (tens). They performed similarly well to posts under his own name. Cool idea!
[plausibly I’m getting parts of the story wrong and someone who was around then will correct me]
i’ve thought big names should do this for conference papers to keep conferences honest (peer review is anonymous but as i understand it it’s extremely obvious when a big name has written a paper)