That Bangladesh Mask Study!
Our guest is Ben Recht, Associate Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at UC Berkeley, who recently got hold of and analyzed the raw data from the Bangladesh cluster randomized control trial of masking which made headlines in September.
SHOW NOTES
Ben Recht: Twitter and webpage
Ben Recht’s recent blog post: Revisiting the Bangladesh Mask RCT
Michel Accad Why N-of-1 is Enough
Ep. 97 with Peter Klein on “Evidence-Based Economics: What the Doctor Ordered?“
Watch the episode on the Accad & Koka Report YouTube channel
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