Should grants use a lottery approach? 🎟️
"Research shows that, barring a minority of outstanding projects, grant winners and losers are not decided by a precise and objective identification of worthy and unworthy projects. Instead, the luck of the draw — who reviews what proposal and the opinions they hold — generally determines these outcomes."
"It is excessively wasteful in terms of researchers’ time."
https://www.statnews.com/2022/10/21/research-funding-broken-lottery-approach-could-fix-it/
@erinnacland I agree. I believe this is due to the fact that there are lot of excellent scientists with great ideas, but limited research funds. The solution to this problem is to increase research funding. We really cannot hair-split the scientific merit of two excellent grants to rank score them. It'll boil down to what you ate for breakfast or how well you slept 
