Medical/epi/health research friends: I've talked before about how econ-style RCTs are a totally different animal than epi/medical/pharma-style RCTs. This study REALLY highlights those differences. A couple highlights of what makes them so different:https://twitter.com/NoahHaber/status/1394737657666707458 …
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Replying to @NoahHaber
I learned much of this when I wrote a paper with an economist (still learning!). My favourite difference is that in econ the rule seems to be to answer every question in a single publication whereas in epi you'd do that over 4-5 different papers
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Replying to @GidMK @NoahHaber
And don't dare it do it in too many pages. We encourage short papers
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Replying to @vectornomist @GidMK
I forget which journal it is, but one of the top-5s recently announced that they are allowing a new "Short Paper" type study for publication, with the word limit being a mere 6500 words.
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When I told Prof Levin that if we wanted to submit to an epi journal we'd have to more than halve the length of the paper he was legitimately shocked
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