Literally every preliminary result I got was from an experiment that was explicitly not funded for the purpose it was requested for. That is, by year 2 of my grant, I was spending my monies on stuff I hadn't proposed, to prepare for the next grant proposal.
I guess part of the reason I exited academia was because I was bad at conducting research :)
Well unfortunately im fairly certain that outcome is the source of funding for these research projects, and i dont think socialized funding could hold a match to it nor potentially even provide as much value
But that's how most research funding works. The same is true if you get a government research grant - do what you want, but if they don't like your results, they are unlikely to fund you another round.
Oh please. It's hard to attract funding for studies, it's perfectly reasonable tos tart with a small sample and tehn ask for funding to do a larger study once you have a working hypothesis.
I'm not. Research funding is very much a zero-sum game. Because they spent that much money trying something that stupid, it's safe to say that some actual good ideas either didn't get funded or had to make do with less.
we learn more and more with every iteration
There was nothing to learn here. It was easy to predict the outcome based on well-understood models, and countless people did.
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