Impact evaluations

Abstract

The article presents a set of imperatives and disclaimers for an open grant review process based on social impact estimation. It argues that any funded projects need to have a clear argument for their impact and should present evidence for their claims, to the best extent possible. Any unobservable elements of the projects will be treated with relative pessimism, as a procedural rather than epistemic decision. The granter may discuss the applications and the decision-making process both publicly and privately. – AI-generated abstract.