Is Effective Altruism Right? #7: Jonathan Ben-Menachem
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Roxanne Jones: I was already coming around to another critique of effective altruism. RCTs are a sort of historical phenomenon right like RCTs. They were not always presented as what is called the gold standard of causal inference, she says. The cleanest way we can look at social science should be through randomized controlled trials and that's why they're so popular with sociologists but it doesn't make sense in today's world.
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