[ipoopatwork]

Well duh. If you're barely getting the grant, you're not going to be in a place where you can impress people and progress very well.

If you miss the grant by a bit, you'll find somewhere where you're a better fit.

It's not the setback that helps

[samvher]

We find that the near-miss group naturally received significantly less NIH funding in the first five years following treatment, averaging $0.29 million less per person (Fig. 2d, t-test p-value < 0.05, Cohen’s d = 0.28), which is consistent with prior studies. Yet the funding difference between the two groups disappeared in the second five-year period (Fig. 2d, t-test p-value > 0.1, Cohen’s d = 0.02).

From the paper [0]. This does not look like the rejects found similar opportunities in more suitable places.

[0] https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-019-12189-3