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    1. michael_nielsen‏ @michael_nielsen 28 Jun 2018
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      A European Research Council report suggests 79% of projects they fund “achieved a major scientific advance”, & only 1% make no contribution. Also, that they fund mostly “high risk” work I don’t know what “high risk” means if almost e’thing is succeeding:https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-018-05325-4?utm_source=twt_nnc&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=naturenews&sf191358728=1 …

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    2. michael_nielsen‏ @michael_nielsen 28 Jun 2018
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      At risk of what? Not succeeding? Sounds like they have about a 1% chance of not succeeding (or 21%, by the stricter standard). Very low risk.

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    3. Neil Saunders‏ @neilfws 28 Jun 2018
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      Reading between the lines it sounds like the "risk" is that assessment of proposals is based on project, not researcher's track record? The old "giving you money is a risk because we've never given you money" trap :)

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    4. michael_nielsen‏ @michael_nielsen 28 Jun 2018
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      Maybe that’s what they mean, but it’s not what “risk” means.

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      michael_nielsen‏ @michael_nielsen 28 Jun 2018
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      If that’s what they meant, it’d have been more accurate to say “We gave money to lots of projects which didn’t match our mistaken preconceptions of who should be given money” 😀

      6:11 PM - 28 Jun 2018
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        1. CⓐmeronNeylon‏ @CameronNeylon 28 Jun 2018
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          True, but that's not a great way to speak to the government types that have to argue for your (and everyone else's) funding it turns out :-)

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        2. Titus Brown‏ @ctitusbrown 28 Jun 2018
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          Cameron - we all know they fund excellence.

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