IlyaShpitser comments on Funding Good Research - Less Wrong

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

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Comment author: IlyaShpitser 28 May 2012 04:14:51PM *  5 points [-]

Academics apply for multiple grants, and their salary is partly supported by each grant (and also by a salary they draw from the University they are affiliated with for teaching classes). Universities also "tax" grants at 50%+ rates.

For example, it is not uncommon to be supported by 5-6 grants each covering a bit less than 20% of your salary. The rough idea is if a grant covers X% of your salary, you will generally spend X% of your time working on the research covered by this grant.

Comment author: ciphergoth 28 May 2012 07:08:34PM 0 points [-]

OK, thank you! So now I really can't work out what this tells us about the SI grant.