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I can't tell if this is sarcasm. RCTs are incredibly commonplace in medicine, but they are hardly the only way to do causal inference. They are also incredibly
by Darmani 11y ago
I can't tell if this is sarcasm. RCTs are incredibly commonplace in medicine, but they are hardly the only way to do causal inference. They are also incredibly easy to make mistakes in; I'd more call them a bronze standard.
- gwern 11y agoThey're not a commonplace in the eternal debate over whether moderate alcohol is healthy or not, which is why this paper is so awesome. The other ways to do causal inference are also much more unreliable; I'll take a questionable RCT over a Mendelian randomization or regression-discontinuity design any day.