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Experiments as Performance Art

2025-09-15

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This essay provocatively argues that randomised controlled trials in social science do not produce generalisable knowledge and therefore, under the formal US regulatory definition, do not constitute human subjects research requiring IRB approval. Reframing RCTs as performance art rather than a gold standard method, the author calls for democratising scientific inquiry and challenges the bureaucratisation of resear...

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Literature Corpus work: 13516984-c2e9-5008-ae0b-ea135f7af165
DOI: 10.32388/substack.atbae1

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