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    1. Ben Liddicott‏ @BenLiddicott Oct 6
      Replying to @BenLiddicott @AlexGodofsky and

      RCTs are mostly useful for interventions which have a smallish effect: Too small to be smack-in-the-face-obvious. For these an RCT is unethical anyway.

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    2. Ben Liddicott‏ @BenLiddicott Oct 6
      Replying to @BenLiddicott @AlexGodofsky and

      So we are talking interventions where either * the probability of obvious success in an individual case is small * the effect size is small enough that without large numbers it's not distinguishable from noise.

      1 reply 0 retweets 1 like
    3. Ben Liddicott‏ @BenLiddicott Oct 6
      Replying to @BenLiddicott @AlexGodofsky and

      So it's a feel-your-way-snake-cave strategy that works sometimes for particular snakes. But it is not a panacea for uncertainty, nor a universal system for generating knowledge.

      1 reply 0 retweets 1 like
    4. Ben Liddicott‏ @BenLiddicott Oct 6
      Replying to @BenLiddicott @AlexGodofsky and

      No, we don't need an RCT for parachutes. Crash test dummies are calibrated by engineers against... * human volunteers * Cadavers * Monkeys The full details of the monkeys' contribution will make you sad. Keyword: Helmets.

      1 reply 0 retweets 1 like
    5. Ben Liddicott‏ @BenLiddicott Oct 6
      Replying to @BenLiddicott @AlexGodofsky and

      Even with all that there was a lot of inference involved. There is a reason engineers incorporate a "margin of safety".

      2 replies 0 retweets 0 likes
    6. Alex Godofsky‏ @AlexGodofsky Oct 6
      Replying to @BenLiddicott @eigenrobot and

      Some of these claims about RCTs are true (some I disagree with but I'm not really interested in arguing those points), but virtually none of them are *actually* supported by the BMJ satirical paper, which paper is chuckleworthy as a joke but fails as critique.

      2 replies 0 retweets 2 likes
    7. Ben Liddicott‏ @BenLiddicott Oct 6
      Replying to @AlexGodofsky @eigenrobot and

      There is no BMJ paper. It doesn't exist. They didn't do the literature survey. They are making a satirical point. When people "cite" the "BMJ paper" they are not "citing" a "paper", they are making a satirical point. It is not a citation.

      2 replies 0 retweets 1 like
    8. Alex Godofsky‏ @AlexGodofsky Oct 6
      Replying to @BenLiddicott @eigenrobot and

      Yes they are citing it (in the ordinary sense, not the formal scientific sense) to develop an argument and they develop that argument incorrectly because of flaws in the paper and the understanding of it.

      1 reply 0 retweets 1 like
    9. Ben Liddicott‏ @BenLiddicott Oct 6
      Replying to @AlexGodofsky @eigenrobot and

      There is no paper. There CANNOT BE FLAWS in a paper that does NOT EXIST. The whole thing is a poignant - so poignant - satire. Wake up. There is no path to truth that can be reduced to an algorithm you can follow. In particular, RCTs are not it.

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    10. Alex Godofsky‏ @AlexGodofsky Oct 6
      Replying to @BenLiddicott @eigenrobot and

      My god, man. "The paper" as in the PDF. I can't tell if you don't understand what I mean or what.

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      eigenrobot‏ @eigenrobot Oct 6
      Replying to @AlexGodofsky @BenLiddicott and

      pls untag me gents :)

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