Rationalizing risk aversion in science: Why incentives to work hard clash with incentives to take risks

• Kevin Gross ,

  Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: krgross@ncsu.edu (KG); cbergst@uw.edu (CTB)

  Affiliation Dept. of Statistics, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, North Carolina, United States of America

  https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5612-7519

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• Carl T. Bergstrom

  Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: krgross@ncsu.edu (KG); cbergst@uw.edu (CTB)

  Affiliation Dept. of Biology, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington, United States of America

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2070-385X

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