Reminds me of the old joke, where a respected scientist is announcing he has some great cure for the disease of the day and is presenting the impressive results to an audience, when someone pipes up and asks:
'How did this compare to the control group?'
The presenter is indignant and says, "Excuse me? You're asking if I randomly selected half of these poor souls to be deprived of the medicine, just to see what would happen to them?"
'...yes.'
"Of course not! That would have condemned half of them to an avoidable death!"
Reminds me of the old joke, where a respected scientist is announcing he has some great cure for the disease of the day and is presenting the impressive results to an audience, when someone pipes up and asks:
'How did this compare to the control group?'
The presenter is indignant and says, "Excuse me? You're asking if I randomly selected half of these poor souls to be deprived of the medicine, just to see what would happen to them?"
'...yes.'
"Of course not! That would have condemned half of them to an avoidable death!"
'...but which half?'