I surprised myself by managing to submit an entry to the contest an hour or two before deadline.
I don’t want to say it wasn’t very good, but...well, I could either discuss all the minerals, discuss a mineral or two in suitable depth, or vastly exceed the recommended word count and the amount of time I could reasonably devote to this project. I won’t say what I chose, since that might bias peer review, but looking at the peer reviews, it looks like many of the entries had very different interpretations on where to go with the question and a lot of it is going to be who was lucky enough to interpret it in the same way the judges do.
The ID numbers of the entries I was told to peer review are kind of obtuse. I guess I won’t speculate on what they might mean about the number of entries publicly, lest giving secret peer-review information be against the rules or something. But I am very curious how many people entered. I told a friend to enter the contest with a single-sentence entry saying just “Minerals are good for you and you should eat more of them”; just in case the contest had fewer than five entries it would be the easiest $500 she ever earned. She quite properly refused.
Also, looking over my desktop today I realized there’s like a 25% chance I accidentally turned in a super-rough-draft with a similar name to my final copy. So, um, if anyone got a paper for peer review where the references are things like [small-calcium-study] or [that-one-experiment-with-the-potassium] and there’s no abstract or recommendations, let me know now so I can disqualify myself and avoid further humiliation.
None of my three peer-reviewed ones are like that.
I don’t think any of my three ones to peer review are Kevin’s, because we discussed what we were doing. So there’s at least five entries, so your friend wouldn’t have made the $500 anyway.
told a friend to enter the contest with an single-sentence entry saying just “Minerals are good for you and you should eat more of them”; just in case the contest had fewer than five entries it would be the easiest $500 she ever earned. She quite properly refused.
Agh. I totally would have done that. Too bad I didn’t think of it.
You seem to know more about the minerals off the top of your head than I do in total, and I submitted an entry. You totally should have submitted one, even with just an hour’s work, for that purpose.
I surprised myself by managing to submit an entry to the contest an hour or two before deadline.
I don’t want to say it wasn’t very good, but...well, I could either discuss all the minerals, discuss a mineral or two in suitable depth, or vastly exceed the recommended word count and the amount of time I could reasonably devote to this project. I won’t say what I chose, since that might bias peer review, but looking at the peer reviews, it looks like many of the entries had very different interpretations on where to go with the question and a lot of it is going to be who was lucky enough to interpret it in the same way the judges do.
The ID numbers of the entries I was told to peer review are kind of obtuse. I guess I won’t speculate on what they might mean about the number of entries publicly, lest giving secret peer-review information be against the rules or something. But I am very curious how many people entered. I told a friend to enter the contest with a single-sentence entry saying just “Minerals are good for you and you should eat more of them”; just in case the contest had fewer than five entries it would be the easiest $500 she ever earned. She quite properly refused.
Also, looking over my desktop today I realized there’s like a 25% chance I accidentally turned in a super-rough-draft with a similar name to my final copy. So, um, if anyone got a paper for peer review where the references are things like [small-calcium-study] or [that-one-experiment-with-the-potassium] and there’s no abstract or recommendations, let me know now so I can disqualify myself and avoid further humiliation.
None of my three peer-reviewed ones are like that.
I don’t think any of my three ones to peer review are Kevin’s, because we discussed what we were doing. So there’s at least five entries, so your friend wouldn’t have made the $500 anyway.
Agh. I totally would have done that. Too bad I didn’t think of it.
You seem to know more about the minerals off the top of your head than I do in total, and I submitted an entry. You totally should have submitted one, even with just an hour’s work, for that purpose.