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BRITISH JOURNAL FOR THE PHILOSOPHY OF SCIENCE
卷 58, 期 3, 页码 451-488出版社
OXFORD UNIV PRESS
DOI: 10.1093/bjps/axm024
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The evidence from randomized controlled trials (RCTs) is widely regarded as supplying the 'gold standard' in medicine-we may sometimes have to settle for other forms of evidence, but this is always epistemically second-best. But how well justified is the epistemic claim about the superiority of RCTs? This paper adds to my earlier (predominantly negative) analyses of the claims produced in favour of the idea that randomization plays a uniquely privileged epistemic role, by closely inspecting three related arguments from leading contributors to the burgeoning field of probabilistic causality-Papineau, Cartwright and Pearl. It concludes that none of these further arguments supplies any practical reason for thinking of randomization as having unique epistemic power.
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