New Zealand has a class of grants in which successful grants are (subject to some criteria) chosen at random: https://gateway.hrc.govt.nz/funding/researcher-initiated-proposals/2019-explorer-grants …pic.twitter.com/s7pC7NlS0k
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I was unaware of this! Seems to be some evidence that this might be a good approach?
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I think that there are various studies of peer review of grant applications that suggest that random choice is likely fairer since there is no significant agreement between reviewers? Of course if you do something like this you need to have shorter applications
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We’ve studied another fund in New Zealand and found that the panels do no better than chance in predicting success (measured in terms of papers and citations) https://www.tepunahamatatini.ac.nz/2015/10/01/jaffe-on-marsden-fund/ …
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