If you do find it, I’d be interested to read that.
I would guess that it’s difficult for people to intuitively understand precisely why randomization is so useful, although other aspects of RCTs are probably easier to grasp – particularly, the experimental part of giving treatment A to one group and treatment B to another group and following up their outcomes. But overall I think I would agree with you; people need less understanding of confounders and selection bias to read an RCT than they’d need to read an observational study.
If you do find it, I’d be interested to read that.
I would guess that it’s difficult for people to intuitively understand precisely why randomization is so useful, although other aspects of RCTs are probably easier to grasp – particularly, the experimental part of giving treatment A to one group and treatment B to another group and following up their outcomes. But overall I think I would agree with you; people need less understanding of confounders and selection bias to read an RCT than they’d need to read an observational study.
I think it’s this paper http://evavivalt.com/wp-content/uploads/Weighing-the-Evidence.pdf. Fwiw, all of Eva’s papers are worth reading!
Sidenote—love your work and WiP (I’m also part of the PS community). Hope to see you on the EAF again!
Oh, I remember reading this paper now! It’s great, thanks for sharing.
And thank you very much :) I will be here more often for sure.