送交者: cornbug 于 2005-6-27, 12:31:32:
回答: Take Science as an expensive hobby. 由 boxer 于 2005-6-27, 11:09:39:
Women are generally capable of making an argument clearer than the most of men, although not deep inside, but it is at least one step ahead to the problem. Men tend to think too much and to make a giant leap that may in the most of cases need several steps to resolve. Therefore at the end they very often accomplished nothing but a maze to be untangled.
In the study section of grant funding agency, I guess the majority of those guys who are evaluating your grant application are not guru in your field. As a result, a simple idea can have the better chance for them to understand therefore to give a higher percentile of funding.
Sex, funding history and ethnicity do play a role, though.
I am doing mine and I am very lazy.