Although I have followed the writings of Chris Blattman and Esther Duflo and similar “randomistas” on and off for several years, I don’t know much about deworming. Nonetheless, my general bias leans in favor of having multiple replications of important findings. We are in the 2020s, but it is still common for core research that is widely cited and accepted to have only been looked into once. I’d be very happy to see a fund or an organization that focuses on creating multiple replications of “cruxy” research.
Yeah that’s a cool idea to have an org that specifically focuses on replication work. I think that if you fleshed out the modeling done here, you could pretty confidently show funders that it would be a cost-effective use of money to do this more widely.
Although I have followed the writings of Chris Blattman and Esther Duflo and similar “randomistas” on and off for several years, I don’t know much about deworming. Nonetheless, my general bias leans in favor of having multiple replications of important findings. We are in the 2020s, but it is still common for core research that is widely cited and accepted to have only been looked into once. I’d be very happy to see a fund or an organization that focuses on creating multiple replications of “cruxy” research.
Yeah that’s a cool idea to have an org that specifically focuses on replication work. I think that if you fleshed out the modeling done here, you could pretty confidently show funders that it would be a cost-effective use of money to do this more widely.