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The editor of Metathesis, a new academic journal of literature,
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19 May 2024, 09:54
The three tabs give us the following info:
Journal: The editor has the article peer-reviewed by exactly three experts, none of whom authored or coauthored the article.
Review Rules:
- Each submitted article must be peer-reviewed by two primary reviewers and one secondary reviewer.
- The specialization of the primary reviewers must be in the general subject area of the submitted article.
- The specialization of the secondary reviewer must be in a general subject area different from that of the submitted article.
- None of the reviewers of a submitted article may have the same institutional affiliation as the article’s author.
Reviews/Authors: This gives the details of each author.
Question 1. Suppose that Borsky has recently authored an article that has been peer-reviewed by Metathesis. With this supposition, the information provided does NOT imply that which one of the following is FALSE?
Look for an option that need not be false, and scan the tab 3 keeping in mind the rules given in tab 2.
Borsky - PQR University - Modernist: So, reviewers cannot be from PQR university, so only ABC and XYZ left....Anyone with PQR university has to be false, and will not be the answer.
Eliminate the options that have authors Huang and Kenyatta as they both are from PQR university.
Poundstone was a primary reviewer and Kenyatta the secondary reviewer.
Nichols was a primary reviewer and Kenyatta the secondary reviewer.
Kenyatta was a primary reviewer and Nichols the secondary reviewer.
Nichols was a primary reviewer and Farkas the secondary reviewer....CORRECT
Poundstone was a primary reviewer and Huang the secondary reviewer.
Question 2. Suppose that all three reviewers for a certain recently submitted article were from the same university. For each of the following statements, select Consistent if the supposition, together with the information provided, does NOT imply that the statement is FALSE. Otherwise, select Not consistent.
Look for an option that need not be false, and scan the tab 3 keeping in mind the rules given in tab 2.
As there are three reviewers, authors from XYZ would not fit in as there are only two of them.
# Amaros was a primary reviewer of the article: Can be true, as there are three from the ABC institution, and two different specializations are available. Laprade could be other primary reviewer and Farkas or Pounstone could be the secondary reviewer.
# Huang was the secondary reviewer of the article: The primary reviewer could be Borsky and Kenyatta who are from same institution but different field of specialization. Can be true
# Huang was the author of the article: Then Amaros and Laprade could be the primary reviewer and Farkas or Pounstone could be the secondary reviewer...Can be true
Question 3. Suppose that Farkas and Kenyatta were both selected as reviewers for a certain recently submitted article. For each of the following statements, select Yes if the statement must be true, based on this supposition and the information provided. Otherwise, select No.
Farkas - ABC University - Postcolonial
Kenyatta - PQR University - Modernist
Analysis
(a) Thus, an author from XYZ institution is the author and has a field of specialization from Post-colonial or Modernist.
(b) Also the third reviewer has to be from these two specialization.
# Laprade was not a reviewer of the article: Not from Post-colonial or Modernist. Hence yes, ..point (b) above.
# Farkas was a primary reviewer of the article: Need not be true. Depends on who the author is....Hence, no
# Borsky was the secondary reviewer of the article: Need not be true. Depends on who the author is....Hence, no