• How would the following actions by the funding agencies affect you?
  • Limiting applicants to one PI or CoI proposal per year:
    • This action would increase the time I could spend on my research
    • This action would reduce my chances for tenure.
    • This action would cause me to leave the field.
    • This action would reduce the number of proposals I submit.
    • This action would improve the quality of those proposals I submit
    • This action would reduce the size of my research group
  • Calling for proposals every other year
    • Etc..
  • Introducing a pre-proposal stage.
    • Etc…
  • Reducing the amount of funding for individual proposals
    • Etc..
  • Creating smaller research grants for exploratory research, with an expectation that successful proposals are likely to be funded in the following year

• Proposals to non-governmental research funds are easier to get funded (or “are available to me” )
• There are too many scientists in the field of astrophysics and the success rate is an appropriate method of population control

All these are to answered by strongly agree ←→ neutral ←→ strongly disagree)