{"id":2362,"date":"2020-01-23T15:47:37","date_gmt":"2020-01-23T20:47:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/cdealumniresources\/?p=2362"},"modified":"2020-01-28T10:43:10","modified_gmt":"2020-01-28T15:43:10","slug":"blog-three-problems-with-randomized-controlled-trials","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/cdealumniresources\/content-type\/blog-three-problems-with-randomized-controlled-trials\/","title":{"rendered":"Blog: Three Problems with Randomized Controlled Trials"},"content":{"rendered":"<h4>\n\t\tBlog: Methods and Measurement\n\t<\/h4>\n<h1>\n\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/www.brookings.edu\/blog\/future-development\/2017\/05\/11\/randomized-control-trials-for-development-three-problems\/\" title=\"&quot;Randomized Controlled Trials for Development? Three Problems&quot;\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">\n\t\t&#8220;Randomized Controlled Trials for Development? Three Problems&#8221;\n\t\t<\/a>\n\t<\/h1>\n<h3>\n\t\tBlog post by Jeffrey Hammer\n\t<\/h3>\n<h3>\n\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/www.brookings.edu\/\" title=\"Via the Brookings Institution\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">\n\t\tVia the Brookings Institution\n\t\t<\/a>\n\t<\/h3>\n<h5>\n\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/unsplash.com\/license\" title=\"Unsplash.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">\n\t\tUnsplash.com\n\t\t<\/a>\n\t<\/h5>\n\t<strong>Originally posted on May 11, 2017<br \/>\n<\/strong>\n<p>Jeffrey Hammer, visiting Princeton at the time, writes about some of the main reasons that randomized controlled trials (RCTs) should not be considered as the best and only method of doing research, and certainly not the best and only way to get countries on a track to development.<\/p>\n\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/www.brookings.edu\/blog\/future-development\/2017\/05\/11\/randomized-control-trials-for-development-three-problems\/\" target=\"_blank\" role=\"button\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\tRead the blog post at Brookings\n\t\t\t<\/a>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This blog post on Brookings from Jeffrey Hammer covers three big reasons not to think of randomized controlled trials as the next &#8220;magic bullet&#8221; for development.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2197,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"tpl-full-width.php","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[61,60,72,100,89],"tags":[524,219,522,523,236,237],"class_list":["post-2362","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blogs","category-content-type","category-featured-content","category-methods-and-measurement-browse-by-research-topic","category-browse-by-research-topic","tag-blog","tag-brookings","tag-brookings-institute","tag-nobel-2019","tag-randomized-controlled-trial","tag-rct"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/cdealumniresources\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2362","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/cdealumniresources\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/cdealumniresources\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/cdealumniresources\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2197"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/cdealumniresources\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2362"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/cdealumniresources\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2362\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2781,"href":"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/cdealumniresources\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2362\/revisions\/2781"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/cdealumniresources\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2362"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/cdealumniresources\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2362"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/cdealumniresources\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2362"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}