Thursday, November 13, 2008
Do We Always Need an Experiment?
It has been discussed that experiment is the best way to prove a difference between treatments. Is this always the case? Can't common sense be a guide also? Suggest a scenario where do not need an experiment to know that a treatment is harmful. I'll start: we do not need a randomized experiment to show that repeated blows to the head by a piece of wood are more damaging than repeated blows by a pillow.
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Ha! Good one, Mr. Quinn! We do not need a randomised experiment to show that eating vegetables is healthier than eating fast food.
oooooo i've got a doozy.
We don't need a randomized experiment to know that jumping off a 10 story is more dangerous than jumping off a 1 story.
building.
haha, nice warda! we do not need a randomized experiment to show that a student who smokes crytal meth 24/7 does worse than a student who does not do drugs...very appropriate since it seems i am the drug abuser in the class...lol jk.
we don't need a randomized experiment to know that smoking and drinking while pregnant is harmful to the fetus
WHICH ONE!?
We do not need a randomized experiment to know that shooting two beams of subatomic particles protons or lead ions at each other head-on at a very high energy is more dangerous than shooting two laser pointers at each other head-on. (Could be harmful if laser was pointed to a young adolescents eye!)
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We do not need a randomized experiment to show that being poked continuously by a long sharp sword is more dangerous than being poked continuously by a little cute baby's finger.
Hmmm, we don't need experiments to tell us that if your parents didn't have kids then neither would you. Also, we don't need experiments to tell us that it is more dangerous for everyone to have a person drink and drive than it for that person to drink and... skip/frolic/walk/etc.
We do not need a randomized experiment to show that missing a day of school will cause a student to fall behind.
also, we do not need a randomized experiment to show that eating thumbtacks will cause more intestinal damage than eating throat lozenges.
why do i have two blogger identities? >.<
We don't need an expirement to know that a bomb has the potential to explode\
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