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Earlier this year the National Science Foundation (NSF) published my report1 of a survey of all principal investigators who received decisions about their research proposals from NSF during 1985. This article describes the origins and aims of the survey, how it was conducted, and some of the implications of our findings for the Foundation's proposal review and decisionmaking process-and for better communication among proposers, reviewers, and Foundation staff.
Jim McCullough (Sun,) studied this question.