I completely agree with you on the differences between clinical RCTs and development/public policy RCTs.
Part of the reason for that is that it was originally meant to be a longer piece, with some policy RCT examples, how clustering works, etc. but it was already fairly long, and those were harder to explain concisely. And secondly simply because I have a background in health/medicine, which meant it was easy to draw examples from the field.
Hopefully I signposted this a little by saying that the procedures I mention are those found in medicine / clinical RCTs, but from your comment I think it was probably not enough. I’ll think about this and clarify or add some caveats to the article that make it clearer. Thank you!
Hey Stephen, thanks very much!
I completely agree with you on the differences between clinical RCTs and development/public policy RCTs.
Part of the reason for that is that it was originally meant to be a longer piece, with some policy RCT examples, how clustering works, etc. but it was already fairly long, and those were harder to explain concisely. And secondly simply because I have a background in health/medicine, which meant it was easy to draw examples from the field.
Hopefully I signposted this a little by saying that the procedures I mention are those found in medicine / clinical RCTs, but from your comment I think it was probably not enough. I’ll think about this and clarify or add some caveats to the article that make it clearer. Thank you!