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John Worrall on Evidence-Based Medicine

Philosophy Bites

CHAPTER

Random Number Generator

Most of my criticisms are to do with overly strong view that you only get genuine scientific evidence if you've randomized. What it doesn't do is what many people in medicine believe it does, which is genuinely control. It's always possible for a single randomized division give you a division that's unequal in some respects. And even if they're not consciously biasing the outcome, they may unconsciously affect it.

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