{"id":5050,"date":"2021-08-20T01:38:24","date_gmt":"2021-08-20T01:38:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.novonon.com\/blog\/2021\/08\/20\/interesting-thread-on-the-question-of-how-to-evaluate-the-effectiveness-of-masks\/"},"modified":"2021-08-20T01:38:24","modified_gmt":"2021-08-20T01:38:24","slug":"interesting-thread-on-the-question-of-how-to-evaluate-the-effectiveness-of-masks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.novonon.com\/blog\/2021\/08\/20\/interesting-thread-on-the-question-of-how-to-evaluate-the-effectiveness-of-masks\/","title":{"rendered":"Interesting thread on the question of how to evaluate the effectiveness of masks"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>This long Twitter thread from a researcher is partly about the object-level question of mask effectiveness, but more interesting to me as a look at the meta-level question of how to evaluate the effectiveness of an intervention that&#8217;s poorly suited to randomized controlled trials.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"625\" height=\"1000\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.novonon.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/screenshot_2021-08-19-21-34-31-0315718639690584506636.jpeg?resize=625%2C1000&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-5049\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.novonon.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/screenshot_2021-08-19-21-34-31-0315718639690584506636.jpeg?resize=640%2C1024&amp;ssl=1 640w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.novonon.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/screenshot_2021-08-19-21-34-31-0315718639690584506636.jpeg?resize=188%2C300&amp;ssl=1 188w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.novonon.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/screenshot_2021-08-19-21-34-31-0315718639690584506636.jpeg?resize=94%2C150&amp;ssl=1 94w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.novonon.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/screenshot_2021-08-19-21-34-31-0315718639690584506636.jpeg?resize=768%2C1229&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.novonon.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/screenshot_2021-08-19-21-34-31-0315718639690584506636.jpeg?resize=624%2C998&amp;ssl=1 624w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.novonon.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/screenshot_2021-08-19-21-34-31-0315718639690584506636.jpeg?w=800&amp;ssl=1 800w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 625px) 100vw, 625px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>https:\/\/twitter.com\/trishgreenhalgh\/status\/1414294003479089154<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This long Twitter thread from a researcher is partly about the object-level question of mask effectiveness, but more interesting to me as a look at the meta-level question of how to evaluate the effectiveness of an intervention that&#8217;s poorly suited to randomized controlled trials. https:\/\/twitter.com\/trishgreenhalgh\/status\/1414294003479089154<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5050","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3pfIY-1js","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.novonon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5050","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.novonon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.novonon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.novonon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.novonon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5050"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.novonon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5050\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.novonon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5050"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.novonon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5050"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.novonon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5050"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}