Respondents’ proposal success rates and agency funding rates, 2009–2012.

aAgency success rates were derived from 1) data for the small grants programs within the NSF, available at http://dellweb.bfa.nsf.gov/awdfr3/default.asp, 2) data from NASA at http://science.nasa.gov/researchers/sara/grant-stats/ and http://science.nasa.gov/media/medialibrary/2013/03/19/ROSES_tracking_2013.03.18_web.pdf, and 3) data from NIH at http://report.nih.gov/fundingfacts/index.cfm (all accessed 16 April 2014). For this purpose, we considered R01 grants from the National Institute of Mental Health as representative for psychology success rates at NIH.Respondents’ proposal success rates and agency funding rates, 2009–2012.