Vaniver comments on Funding Good Research - Less Wrong

22 Post author: lukeprog 27 May 2012 06:41AM

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Comment author: Vaniver 27 May 2012 05:20:55PM 10 points [-]

The paper I wrote for the DoD this last year cost them $2,000 a page (only about a quarter went to me), and so that seems in line with general academic funding.

Comment author: [deleted] 27 May 2012 10:03:56PM 1 point [-]

Why a page?

Comment author: Vaniver 27 May 2012 10:06:00PM 4 points [-]

That is, why am I measuring their expenditure in terms of pages, rather than months? Because Alicorn asked how long the paper was, and I couldn't help but do that calculation when I saw the grant proposal.

Comment author: [deleted] 27 May 2012 10:33:23PM 1 point [-]

Exactly. I thought you meant the actually payed per page, something I have heard is costume with course-books in the states. Have always found it to be rather strange.