Re:We're Incentivizing Bad Science
by Fomite on Tuesday October 29, 2019 @08:29PM
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There have been suggestions that doing science funding via lottery (with some caveats) would be more effective and more efficient than our current grant proposal based system.
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There should first be a good base of teaching assistant funding with enough free time to do research work. A lottery for extra PhD grants would indeed work well on top of this. Often the key is simply top-k grades now for those grants.
Fun fact, most historical republics and democracies elected political offices by lottery. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sortition