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In Reply to: Reviewer errors? posted by Jack G on November 25, 2024 at 08:59:20:
Hi,I've been doing this for almost 30 years and pretty much from the beginning we've had multiple "layers" looking over and editing every review. And that still doesn't mean errors DON'T slip through, but it greatly minimizes them.
The real problem is reviewers can't know everything. Also, most reviewers aren't THAT technical. If they were super-technical, they'd be building stuff.
With that in mind, you need people to go over the text, but also technical types to go over those details.
Here articles go through our managing editor, Gordon Brockhouse, who has 50 years of audio-writing experience. Very decent technically and outstanding on the software side for streaming, etc.
But then it goes to copy editing. We have three of those editors and one has studied physics.
After that, the review is formatted and read by a team of six people. One of those is a physicist, the other is our electronics-measurements person. Gordon is another, and the other three include me and two very experienced reviewers.
After all those eyes have gone over it, we HOPE to got all the errors out. But it does take "layers" and if you don't have them, massive errors can creep in, no doubt, because even with all that, errors still creep in.
Doug Schneider
SoundStage!
Edits: 11/25/24
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