TimS comments on [LINK] Possible Unrepresentative Subjects in Studies of Medical Interventions - Less Wrong

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Comment author: TimS 23 April 2013 07:08:45PM 4 points [-]

Honestly, what I found more interesting was the difficulty in generalizing from the RCT population to the treatment population.

Does intervention X work for homeless people with problem Y? Who knows, they were excluded from the RCT. But most of the population with Y is homeless.