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| Topic | Luck in early grants predicts a scientist's success in future grants and also... |
| Mal_Fet 04/23/18 6:29:58 PM #21: | COVxy posted... Again, by examining grants that got scores around the hard threshold, you are looking at what are effectively equally viable grants. For whatever objective measurement exists within grant evaluation, the measurement error is way too high to distinguish between scores so close, making these differences "as good as random", as the paper cited. How do you determine objectively how promising studies are? Are the "equally-promising" studies on the same topic? Do they have the same intent? Do they have the same citations? How do you figure that one study is equally as promising as another unless the studies are carbon copies of one another? --- Freedom is the right to tell people what they do not want to hear. -George Orwell ... Copied to Clipboard! |
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