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On 31 Jan 2020, at 12:26, Jeremy Howick <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
Dave Sackett famously said that experts should retire when they become experts (see his ‘Sins of Expertness paper here: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/10797065). One of the sins is that experts introduce bias to grant reviewing bodies. As they do in so many other domains, New Zealand has a way of reducing such bias, namely by awarding some grants using a random process: https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-019-03572-7 What do people think? To unsubscribe from the EVIDENCE-BASED-HEALTH list, click the following link: https://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/cgi-bin/webadmin?SUBED1=EVIDENCE-BASED-HEALTH&A=1
Dave Sackett famously said that experts should retire when they become experts (see his ‘Sins of Expertness paper here: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/10797065).
One of the sins is that experts introduce bias to grant reviewing bodies.
As they do in so many other domains, New Zealand has a way of reducing such bias, namely by awarding some grants using a random process: https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-019-03572-7
What do people think?
To unsubscribe from the EVIDENCE-BASED-HEALTH list, click the following link: https://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/cgi-bin/webadmin?SUBED1=EVIDENCE-BASED-HEALTH&A=1
