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Anyone know why the agency might drop funding midway through? It doesn’t sound like there was a cost overrun. Sunk cost fallacy doesn’t justify spending, but t

• prepend 3y ago
  Seems like they ran into some management issues and the research didn’t yield the results (as far as publications) that they expected in their application. And it’s a big grant at $28M. So that’s a lot to spend on researchers who seemed surprised at the difficulty of running such a study and didn’t seem to generate many new findings over the course of 5 years. For example… > The researchers estimated in their 2018 grant application that it would take at least three months to build the physical, digital and human infrastructure for the study. The process ended up taking three years. This is all good for a private philanthropist. But the NIH is taxpayer funded and $28M given to this grant means other grants not funded.
  • nobodyandproud 3y ago
    Have you seen how large their “Executive Leadership” team is? I’m more than a bit skeptical that enough funding is being funneled into the research itself.
  • fsckboy 3y ago
    "we meant dog-years!"
    • woleium 3y ago
      but… dog years are _shorter_ than human years?