Meaning of randomista | Babel Free

Definitions

A proponent of randomized trials as the optimal form of research.

Examples

“He is against “one-size-fits-all” policy rules and favors experimentation, but he is skeptical of the experimental claims by the “randomistas.””

“'If we don't know⟳ whether we are doing any good, then we are not any better than the medieval doctors and their leeches,' says Esther Duflo, a leading randomista.”

“But Charles Peirce, the brilliant randomista who helped kickstart the field, would spend⟳ his final two decades unable to afford⟳ to heat his house, subsisting on bread donated by the local baker, and writing on the back of old manuscripts because he was too poor to buy⟳ paper.”

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