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This paper is intended as a sarcastic critique of the push towards conducting randomized trials in academia/medicine, but it’s an obvious straw man. You could w
by dbroockman 5y ago
This paper is intended as a sarcastic critique of the push towards conducting randomized trials in academia/medicine, but it’s an obvious straw man. You could write this sarcastic article for any research method - “see, why do research using method X when we already know the answer from other methods?”
The problem is that there are plenty of research questions where RCTs show us that previous non-RCTs were wrong.
- ironmagma 5y agoIs that a problem? It can be true in isolation of the fact that sometimes, what's going to happen without a RCT is just obvious, because an experiment is not needed to answer every conceivable question.
- raverbashing 5y ago"obvious straw man" researchers should be worrying about the non-obvious strawmen. Because these extreme conditions help up check the boundaries of what is possible to verify or not. > The problem is that there are plenty of research questions where RCTs show us that previous non-RCTs were wrong. And that is fine. When you are able to use an RCT.