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Thoughts on risks and benefits of grant proposals built heavily around preli...
Research Idea
Many grant applications rely heavily on preliminary unpublished data to demonstrate feasibility. This gives reviewers early insight, yet unpublished preliminary results remain subject to change. What trade‑offs exist when you build grant arguments around unreleased preliminary findings?
Feng Cai, Fang Wang and 30 others4 Comments-
Preliminary unpublished results can convincingly demonstrate project feasibility to reviewers.
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Results may shift before grant work actually commences, creating expectation mismatch.
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Be very explicit inside proposal text about preliminary status of those datasets.
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Do not over‑promise final outcomes purely based on early suggestive preliminary signals.
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