Thanks for your work on this, Guillaume! I should stress that I think of $100K per criterion as the minimum that funders should expect to spend. And as you mention, some criteria are going to be much more expensive to investigate than others. In particular, the behavioral ones that you take to be the most evidentially significant could each cost 3x-5x that baseline. Behavioral work is hard!
I agree! There’s one thing that I maybe did not stress enough is that academic labs usually don’t rely on a single funding for a project, they often have some basal amount from the university, or from other projects. $100k does not cover everything, nor does it assures that we will have enough evidence at the end to have high confidence, but it’s a fair amount that a single lab could ask to work on one criterion and significantly improve our knowledge and confidence on it. PS: It’s also a very US-centered value, this amount would be more valuable for research labs in many other countries.
Thanks for your work on this, Guillaume! I should stress that I think of $100K per criterion as the minimum that funders should expect to spend. And as you mention, some criteria are going to be much more expensive to investigate than others. In particular, the behavioral ones that you take to be the most evidentially significant could each cost 3x-5x that baseline. Behavioral work is hard!
I agree! There’s one thing that I maybe did not stress enough is that academic labs usually don’t rely on a single funding for a project, they often have some basal amount from the university, or from other projects. $100k does not cover everything, nor does it assures that we will have enough evidence at the end to have high confidence, but it’s a fair amount that a single lab could ask to work on one criterion and significantly improve our knowledge and confidence on it. PS: It’s also a very US-centered value, this amount would be more valuable for research labs in many other countries.