Dan Goodman on Nostr: How come grant funding decisions are so biased and random given that reviewers & ...

How come grant funding decisions are so biased and random given that reviewers & panel are trying their best to do the right thing? There's just no signal to detect. You can't predict what science will be important without doing it. All you can get is noise and unconscious bias.

That's why I believe that everyone involved in this process is being genuine and honest, but the outcomes are still poor. And why we can't base policy on our anecdotal experience of being in these panels, but instead have to look at the statistics.