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Metascience Working Group - Using science to improve science

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The working group facilitates metascience proposals, discussions, and insights, with a particular focus on projects that may be relevant to ARPA-H, the National Institutes of Health, the National Science Foundation, and the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office. Metascience seeks to address questions like: What contracts, incentives and institutions work best when funding scientific research? How should funders decide which projects to support? How much weight should be given to the proposal versus the track record of the proposer? How can we get the benefits of expert peer review without throttling new ideas that are outside dominant research paradigms? And how can we ensure that the most talented individuals—including early-career researchers, those entering science from non-traditional life and career paths, and more broadly members of traditionally under-represented groups—are not discouraged from pursuing science? Little systematic evidence exists on many of these questions. The scient

New scientific discoveries are the basis of long-term economic growth and social progress. But despite how much society spends on science, we know surprisingly little about how different structures, incentives, and organizational models shape the rate and direction of science. To learn more, we need to apply the scientific method to the way that we fund and structure science. Rigorous experimentation, data collection, and evaluation can help us advance the frontier of knowledge and produce better science. We need to create, in other words, a practice of “metascience”. Metascience seeks to…

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