Understanding and Misunderstanding Randomized Controlled Trials¶
Deaton, A., & Cartwright, N. (2018). Understanding and Misunderstanding Randomized Controlled Trials. Social Science & Medicine, 2-21.
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Mechanisms¶
- Intervention Test
- Its failure mode is the outcome-only test that confirms the metric while missing the mechanism — the number moves, everyone declares the theory proven, and the reason it moved (a novelty effect, a coincident promotion, a different mediator entirely) goes unexamined, so the result fails to transfer.
This sourceWarns that an estimated treatment effect does not by itself identify the causal mechanism.
- Its failure mode is the outcome-only test that confirms the metric while missing the mechanism — the number moves, everyone declares the theory proven, and the reason it moved (a novelty effect, a coincident promotion, a different mediator entirely) goes unexamined, so the result fails to transfer.
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