What José Luis Ricón thinks about taste

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Engineer and writer at Nintil, where he has spent years reading the empirical literature on how science is funded and organised — grant peer review, funding lotteries, whether ideas are getting harder to find — and reporting what the evidence does and does not support.

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1. 20 Jan 2021

   Our readingReviewers can tell the obviously good from the obviously bad, but there is a messy middle where they cannot tell at all.

   Their wordsThe way I see this is that reviewers can identify what's obviously not great and what is obviously great (Perhaps identifying the latter is easier than the former). But there is a "messy middle" where it is unclear what to fund.

   ↗Fund people, not projects IV: Scientific egalitarianism and lotteriesnintil.com 2nd of 3 in this piece