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RCTs: A step up from leeches

1/17/2013

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Adding another sweet line to her resume, Esther Duflo was nominated for a post on the White House’s new Global Development Council. In a great article from the Daily Beast, she describes why randomized control trails in development are so important: "If we don’t know whether [aid is] doing any good, we are not any better than the medieval doctors and their leeches.”

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4/22/2013 09:48:29 pm

Leech treatment is now available all over the world. They are effective and cheap. But you need to suffer a little bit pain. These creatures will such out the bad blood from swellings and other infections and it is an olden method.

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