Experiments and subject sampling
实验与受试者自主探查
This paper examines the impact of randomisation and blinding in experiments in which subjects act like investigators by attempting to learn about the effectiveness of the administered treatments. We derive the effects that this type of subject inference has on investigator inference. We show that the conditions under which randomisation and blinding induce unbiased estimation when subjects make treatment inferences are extremely strong and unlikely to hold in most…