In response to NIH's findings that expert peer review cannot predict research quality, a group of microbiologists proposed that the rational solution would be to replace expert evaluation with random selection: put all 80,000 grant applications in a cylindrical container and select them randomly.
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Malcolm GladwellEvidence Quote
“a bunch of microbiologists published this paper where they said well the only rational thing to do now is to tell all of the grant reviewers to go home...just have a big round cylindrical container put all the applications in the container and pick them out at random”
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