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Randomised control trials: Are they really the gold standard?

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Professor Naila Kabeer highlights the issues with using randomized control trials as they fail to take into account history and context which can skew findings

Randomised control trials (RCTs) have become a dominant methodology in research. However, issues with RCTs, including their failure to take account of history, context, or relevant findings, bring into question the superiority of the method. Professor Naila Kabeer, at the London School of Economics, highlights these issues in her research and discusses how the overfocus on RCT methods has led […]

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