My general thought is that TheFunded is a highly scientific exercise in its ratings mechanism but it I am wary of a site "rating" a VC as if it was all as easy as applying a slide rule to a human being's personality.
"People used to ask me if the ratings are scientific, or if we are playing any tricks," Mr. Du said.
If I [researcher] was only busy writing scientific articles, then my ratings as a scientist would be much higher in terms of the H-index, citations, numbers, etc.
This problem is described in the following quotation: If I [researcher] was only busy writing scientific articles, then my ratings as a scientist would be much higher in terms of the H-index, citations, numbers, etc.
Thus, each item (i.e., question) included four possible answers, at least four possible scientific reasons, and confidence ratings such that students could separately estimate how confident they were about their answers and their reasons.
And, when asked to rank the relative dangers of a variety of potential hazards, scientific experts routinely give lower ratings to things like nuclear power and pesticides than do laypeople, researchers have found.
The importance ratings from the scientific experts and policy makers were multiplied with the performance scores into a weighted MCA scoring (see Table 1).
This has become of widespread use in economic fraud detection (e.g. tax evasion) [31], but the NBL was also proposed as a means to identify possible problems with survey data [32], self-reported ratings [33], and scientific results [34].
High predictive validity – that is, a strong association between the outcome of peer review (usually, reviewers' ratings) and the scientific quality of a manuscript submitted to a journal (measured as citations of the later published paper) – does not as a rule suffice to demonstrate the usefulness of peer review for the selection of manuscripts.
Based on ratings of panellists, scientific research on NCDs (item A series) has grown rapidly in China in recent years.
