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Zubon comments on Open thread, Jan. 25 - Jan. 31, 2016 - Less Wrong Discussion

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Comment author: Zubon 29 January 2016 08:32:12PM 2 points [-]

My experience is mostly with formula grants, where the grant is mostly a formality like the EFT reimbursement. Many grants have expected recipients. Others are desperately seeking new applicants and ideas. From the outside, it is difficult to tell which is which, and from the inside grantor agencies often have trouble telling why random outsiders are applying to their intentionally exclusive grants but they have trouble finding good applicants for the ones where they want new folks.