Coursework Entry

Establishing Causation in Experimental Design - Shuls

  • Correlation is not causation
  • Causation could have been our program, or anything else
  • Counterfactual - what would have happened without the program
  • Confounding variable - something else. Unobserved characteristics.
  • Evaluations without a counterfactual cannot attempt to measure an impact or establish causality.
  • RCT - Randomized Control Trials
  • 2023 The Year That the Evidence-Based Medicine (EBM) Paradigm Was Weaponized Against Vaccines and Public Health
  • EBMupdated.jpg
  • Selection Bias -
  • Contamination
  • Unethical to withhold something we believe will work from someone?
  • Why don’t we use them more?