However imperfect their trials, the Taliban prisoners did at least get them.
The idea of the independent monitor, like the lawsuits themselves, is rooted in the hope that a single judge can diagnose a complex problem and reform a huge organization like the New York Police Department based on the imperfect medium of trial testimony.
Even a planned placebo-controlled trial is imperfect, because the application of exclusion criteria represents a difference from the real world situation.
Cluster-randomized trials are imperfect in their ability to produce balance of measured and unmeasured characteristics at levels below the level of randomization.
Ms. des Forges, who said she had followed several dozen trials in Rwanda, said the trial here, while imperfect, "has been done with a great deal more depth than those in Rwanda".
The Gates Foundation declined to say how much money it was ultimately prepared to spend on an imperfect vaccine; this set of trials is set to go into 2014.
At least two venture-backed startups ― including San Francisco-based Imperfect Produce, which is behind Whole Foods' trial program ― now sell rejected produce through subscription services and retail partnerships.
Why criticize a trial design, that though imperfect, cannot be improved, because of ethical constraints?
The OraQuick test is imperfect.
Human rights trials of former leaders are imperfect means for reckoning with the past.
