Re: A quote concerning randomness

From: Mok-Kong Shen (mok-kong.shen_at_t-online.de)
Date: 10/13/04 

Date: Wed, 13 Oct 2004 23:06:54 +0200

Joe Peschel wrote:

> I'd say the only thing you can conclude about the absence of letters is not
> "supreme quality," but merely that there is an absence of letters. In other
> words, you can't conclude much at all. Their absence may be for many
> reasons: the editor doesn't publish them; the editor received no letters
> worth publishing; the editor suppresses the publication of reader letters.

On the assumption that the editors are responsible (don't
suppress letters from readers with justified reasons to
criticize), the absence of letters means absence of critics
(including errors) in the papers published. Isn't that right?
So the scientific results published are all correct in this
case. Doesn't that mean a supreme quality of publication? Of
course, there is another meaning of 'quality'. The math
journals, for example, are at diverse levels. One could
interpret high quality as more sophisticated math. But a
journal dealing with elementary math could nonetheless be
of supreme quality in the sense of publication in its field.
The journal 'Elemente der Mathematik' (a Swiss journal with
papers in English) is in my view one such.

M. K. Shen

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