...coming back to this discussion 6 months later, having had nothing to do with any of this except as an observer, I’m incredibly happy with their recent work. Given that, I think that in retrospect, their work basically fully justifies the grant. (To be clear: a failure does not refute a claim of value based on hits-based giving, at best if functions as weak evidence—but success does strongly justify the claim.)
...coming back to this discussion 6 months later, having had nothing to do with any of this except as an observer, I’m incredibly happy with their recent work. Given that, I think that in retrospect, their work basically fully justifies the grant. (To be clear: a failure does not refute a claim of value based on hits-based giving, at best if functions as weak evidence—but success does strongly justify the claim.)