Christina Eilers (MIT) and I discussed our referee report today, on our paper on re-calibrating abundance ratios as measured by APOGEE to remove log-g-dependent systematics. The referee report came quickly! And it was very useful: The referee found an assumption that we are making that we had not explicitly stated in the paper. And this is important: As my loyal reader knows, I believe that a data-analysis paper is correct only insofar as it is consistent with its explicitly stated (and hopefully tested and justified) assumptions. So if a paper is missing an assumption, it is wrong!
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