A Dataset of Peer Reviews (PeerRead): Collection, Insights and NLP Applications
Table 3: Mean review scores for each presentation format (oral vs. poster). Raw scores range between 1–5. For reference, the last column shows the sample standard deviation based on all reviews.
['[BOLD] Presentation format', '[BOLD] Oral', '[BOLD] Poster', 'Δ', '[BOLD] stdev']
Notably, the average ‘overall recommendation’ score in reviews recommending an oral presentation is 0.9 higher than in reviews recommending a poster presentation, suggesting that reviewers tend to recommend oral presentation for submissions which are holistically stronger.