One term comes up repeatedly in discussions of nonprofit measurement: randomized, controlled trials, or RCTs. In a randomized, controlled trial, the researcher randomly assigns some people to ...

The new Nobel laureates are considered to be instrumental in using randomised controlled trials to test the effectiveness of various policy interventions to alleviate poverty. A randomised ...

The best way to compare a new treatment to the standard treatment is in a randomised controlled trial. In such a study, participants are randomly allocated to either the new or standard (control ...

Despite the large number of randomized controlled trials (RCTs) assessing weight loss interventions, no study has assessed the quality of reporting in these trials. We assessed 63 RCTs ...

Everyday Employers is a wide-ranging study, but its advocacy of randomized controlled trials (RCTs) concerns me here. RCTs are experiments where the people being studied are randomly allocated one ...

Because of ethical considerations, scientists haven’t been able to conduct randomized controlled trials to conclusively prove the effectiveness of mask-wearing on interrupting coronavirus ...

But what is the exact scope of their experimental method, known as randomized control trials (RCTs)? Which sorts of questions are RCTs able to address and which do they fail to answer? The first of ...

A randomized control trial, or RCT, is a powerful way to design experiments to identify causal effects of an intervention. In an RCT, participants are randomly selected into treatment and control ...

Today’s post tackles the debate over randomized controlled trials (RCTs), which have emerged as an important tool for measuring the success of development interventions. International donors ...

Noncompliance is an important issue in the design and conduct of randomized controlled trials (RCTs). It arises when participants do not receive the treatment or intervention to which they were ...

Randomized controlled trials are the most reliable method available for testing new treatments. They have become the standard that pharmaceutical companies must meet for calculating and proving ...