“Funders of independent researchers we’ve interviewed think that there are plenty of talented applicants, but would prefer more research proposals focused on relatively few existing promising research directions”—Would be curious to hear why this is. Is it that if there is too great a profusion of research directions that there won’t be enough effort behind each individual one?
“Funders of independent researchers we’ve interviewed think that there are plenty of talented applicants, but would prefer more research proposals focused on relatively few existing promising research directions”—Would be curious to hear why this is. Is it that if there is too great a profusion of research directions that there won’t be enough effort behind each individual one?