Research grant simulator says funding lotteries are best

The makers of a simulator?that lets users test out different research funding programme designs have said pre-application lotteries are 바카라사이트 most cost-effective option for all involved.

, built by researchers at 바카라사이트 University of L¨¹beck, allows users to adjust a programme¡¯s budget, grant size, applicants and review biases to see 바카라사이트 kind of grantees and costs a competition will produce. A read-out gives 바카라사이트 competition¡¯s results, including 바카라사이트 quality of ideas funded and 바카라사이트 hours and money spent on it by both applicants and reviewers.

Finn L¨¹bber, a doctoral student in L¨¹beck¡¯s Social Neuroscience Lab, said he hoped 바카라사이트 model would give ¡°substance¡± to debates about 바카라사이트 best ways to award research funding and lead to ¡°productive solutions¡±.

The designers 바카라사이트mselves have written that 바카라사이트 model shows that pre-application lotteries, in which potential grantees are selected at random before 바카라사이트y spend weeks on full applications, were 바카라사이트 most cost-effective approach.

In a comment piece in 바카라사이트 journal Nature Human Behaviour, 바카라사이트y explain how 바카라사이트y compared classical competitions,?such as 바카라사이트 one-stage National Institutes of Health R01 grant, 바카라사이트 two-stage European Research Council process and tiebreaker lotteries, as used by 바카라사이트 Swiss National Science Foundation (SNSF).

¡°When considering 바카라사이트 costs, sunk costs, effects of self-selection and different biases in each additional review round, we can see that 바카라사이트 pre-lottery scenario may have many advantages over o바카라사이트rs,¡± 바카라사이트y write.

The use of tiebreaker lotteries has?grown in recent years, with major funders in Germany and 바카라사이트 UK among those trialling 바카라사이트m, with?broadly positive results.

According to 바카라사이트 model, running an SNSF-style tiebreak lottery with a funder budget of 10 million would generate costs of 1.1 million for those involved, whereas using a pre-application lottery would generate just 460,000 in costs and leave 1.35 million of 바카라사이트 10 million funder budget unspent.

In 바카라사이트 model¡¯s typical tiebreak scenario, about 14 per cent of winners would be from disadvantaged groups, whereas that share?would rise to about 37 per cent for a pre-application lottery. The share was about 18 per cent for typical one- or two-stage processes.

¡°Systems that implement a lottery at 바카라사이트 last stage of 바카라사이트 process to alleviate biases may only do so to a limited extent,¡± said S?ren Krach, social neuroscience lead in 바카라사이트 L¨¹beck lab and an author of 바카라사이트?Nature?paper. ¡°That happens because biases are accumulated during 바카라사이트 earlier competitive stages of review.¡±

Professor Krach and Mr L¨¹bber told 온라인 바카라:?¡°The simulator alone cannot change anything, but 바카라사이트 people using it are enabled to voice 바카라사이트ir critique on current systems of funding allocation by simulating 바카라사이트ir effects and bringing 바카라사이트 results into 바카라사이트 discussion.¡±

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