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"Steve Ziliak, a critic of RCTs [randomised controlled trials], complains about one conducted in China in which some visually-impaired children were given glasses while others received nothing. The case against the trial is that we no more need a randomised trial of spectacles than we need a randomised trial of the parachute." | |||
<div align=right>--Tim Harford, in: [http://www.ft.com/intl/cms/s/2/59bb202c-ca7b-11e3-8a31-00144feabdc0.html#axzz37B1vfyTV The random risks of randomized trials], ''Financial Times'', 25 April 2014 </align> | |||
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Revision as of 16:10, 11 July 2014
Quotations
"Steve Ziliak, a critic of RCTs [randomised controlled trials], complains about one conducted in China in which some visually-impaired children were given glasses while others received nothing. The case against the trial is that we no more need a randomised trial of spectacles than we need a randomised trial of the parachute."
--Tim Harford, in: The random risks of randomized trials, Financial Times, 25 April 2014 </align>
Submitted by Paul Alper