ICLR 2027 reviews spark jokes: paper ID correlates with scores, 'correlation is causation'
PMinervini · x · 2026-11-07
As ICLR 2027 reviews land, researchers joke that paper IDs correlate with review scores — framed as 'correlation is causation'. Bruno Ferreira suggests causal-inference researcher Elias Bareinboim use it as a lecture example: paper ID ← last-minute submission → paper quality, with the ID carrying a quality signal through the confounder.
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