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Rationalizing risk aversion in science
Kevin Gross, Carl T. Bergstrom
Scientific research requires taking risks, as the most cautious approaches are unlikely to lead to the most rapid progress. Yet much funded scientific research plays it safe and fu…
Why ex post peer review encourages high-risk research while ex ante review discourages it
Kevin Gross, Carl T. Bergstrom
Peer review is an integral component of contemporary science. While peer review focuses attention on promising and interesting science, it also encourages scientists to pursue some…
Contest models highlight inherent inefficiencies of scientific funding competitions
Kevin Gross, Carl T. Bergstrom
Scientific research funding is allocated largely through a system of soliciting and ranking competitive grant proposals. In these competitions, the proposals themselves are not the…
MIMIX: a Bayesian Mixed-Effects Model for Microbiome Data from Designed Experiments
Neal S. Grantham, Brian J. Reich, Elizabeth T. Borer +1
Recent advances in bioinformatics have made high-throughput microbiome data widely available, and new statistical tools are required to maximize the information gained from these d…
Publication bias and the canonization of false facts
Silas B. Nissen, Tali Magidson, Kevin Gross +1
In the process of scientific inquiry, certain claims accumulate enough support to be established as facts. Unfortunately, not every claim accorded the status of fact turns out to b…