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Policymaking Is Not a Science (Yet) (Ep. 405 Rebroadcast)

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Scaling a Programme Until You're Ninety Five Percent Certain the Results Are True

Going big means you have to be many things to many people. Going big means you will face a lot of trade offs. Once you peer inside these failure buckets that list and suscon describe, it's not so surprising that so many good ideas fail to scale up. So what do they propose that could help? Now, our proposal is that we do not believe that we should scale a programme until you're ninety five per cent certain the result is true....

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