Similarly, the randomization in randomized clinical trials concerns the allocation of the treatment, not the selection of individuals for the study.
To consider an example which is much discussed in the research ethics literature, it is commonly assumed that valid consent for randomized clinical trials requires individuals to understand randomization.
According to Duflo, the virtue of randomization is that it not only identifies the best remedies; it does so with a clarity that should be attractive to policymakers, who surely want to be associated with ideas that work.
But Duflo set in motion a randomization industry.
But by combining video-chatting technology and randomization Ternovskiy has bucked a decade-long trend that has made the Internet feel progressively more organized, pleasant, and safe.
Meanwhile, Duflo's tone of certainty about the joys of randomization — she boldly told the TED conference that she could "take the guesswork out of policy-making" — maddens some scholars who have greater tolerance for looser, longer-established ways of trying to effect change.
The intention was to build a Web site, to announce a movement — "to turn this from the project that crazy people do in the back yard to something that is institutional and serious," as Duflo put it — and to start giving "executive education" courses in randomization.
Despite his admiration for Duflo, Deaton has become increasingly wary of the fashion for randomization — to the point where, at the end of 2008, he found himself giving a high-profile lecture in London that began with two photographs on a PowerPoint slide.
She's one of four black students at the center of the film, another one of whom is Troy Fairbanks (Brandon P Bell), a big man on campus and the head of the traditionally black residence hall, which is being broken up through the university's "randomization" of housing.
