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What is a gold-standard study?

• smt88 8y ago
  Generally, it just means "best available methodology". That obviously differs between disciplines. It's harder to study living brains or national economies, for example, than to study bacteria. There's an entertaining, important book about this topic that is meant to help people understand what makes gold-standard science and how to recognize it. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bad_Science_(book) https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bad_Science_(book)