Chance and Consensus in Peer Review
- 20 November 1981
- journal article
- Published by American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) in Science
- Vol. 214 (4523) , 881-886
- https://doi.org/10.1126/science.7302566
Abstract
An experiment in which 150 proposals submitted to the National Science Foundation were evaluated independently by a new set of reviewers indicates that getting a research grant depends to a significant extent on chance. The degree of disagreement within the population of eligible reviewers is such that whether or not a proposal is funded depends in a large proportion of cases upon which reviewers happen to be selected for it. No evidence of systematic bias in the selection of NSF reviewers was found.Keywords
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