Comment: Nature Index: Funders should assign research grants via a lottery system to reduce human bias.

Andy · May 14, 2018

Research rankings by committee or peer review are notoriously unreliable. The same grant application that succeeds in one round might be rejected in the next. A fairer outcome could be achieved through a lottery system. Relying on the luck of the draw would reduce the influence of implicit human biases, such as risk-averse behaviour, and preferences for certain genders and races, on funding decisions.

In such a model, a committee would scrutinise proposals to ensure that they met the funder’s remit, and were of high methodological quality. Proposals that met these minimum requirements would be put into a pool to be selected at random.
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Sasha · May 14, 2018

God forbid they do it according to societal need.

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