Political Science · Governance & Public Policy in India
UGC NET 2023 Political Science
Which of the following techniques is considered as the 'Gold Standard'?
ARandomised sampling
BJustified sampling
CRandomized control trials ✓ Correct
DSnowball method
Correct answer: (C) Randomized control trials — The randomized control trial is regarded as the gold standard, so the answer is Randomized control trials.
Explanation
★The randomized control trial is regarded as the gold standard, so the answer is Randomized control trials.
★It is considered the most rigorous method for testing whether an intervention works.
★Random assignment to treatment and control groups gives strong causal evidence.
★It minimises bias and confounding factors that distort other methods.
★For this reason it is the benchmark in medicine and increasingly in policy evaluation.
★Snowball sampling and simple random sampling are sampling techniques, not impact tests.
★So the randomized control trial earns the gold standard label.
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