Randomistas: How Radical Researchers Changed Our World 1743820275, 9781743820278

Randomised tests are carried out on us every day: by supermarkets, search engines, online dating sites, political partie

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Table of contents :
Scurvy Scared Straight and Sliding Doors ..............
From Bloodletting to Placebo Surgery ..............
Decreasing Disadvantage One Coin Toss at a Time ..............
The Pioneers of Randomisation ..............
Learning How to Teach ..............
Controlling Crime ..............
Valuable Experiments in Poor Countries ..............
Farms Firms and Facebook ..............

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