A Sentence to Ponder

Posted on September 7, 2014 by Arnold Kling

From an article on the decline of risk-taking and creativity in scientific research funding.

The average age to receive NIH research grants has gone from 38 in 1980 to 51 today.

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One Response to A Sentence to Ponder

  1. John Thacker says:
    September 7, 2014 at 5:37 pm

    Not mentioned in that article but should be – the end of mandatory retirement, both in practice and legally at US universities. There was a special legal exemption until 1993 from age discrimination at universities. Now a greater percentage of faculty work past 80 than worked past 70 in 1990.

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