Oregon experiment
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Oregon experiment is a recurring event in the Astral Codex Ten archive, appearing 2 times across 2 issues between April 24, 2024 and April 30, 2024. The archive places it in contexts such as “Baicker was one of the main people behind the Oregon experiment”; “The Oregon experiment found people got more diabetes drugs, but not that they had less diabetes”. It most often appears alongside Karnataka, RAND Health Insurance Experiment, Robin.
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- Category: Events
- Mention count: 2
- Issue count: 2
- First seen: April 24, 2024
- Last seen: April 30, 2024
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Related Pages
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- Karnataka (2 shared issues)
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- RAND Health Insurance Experiment (2 shared issues)
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- Robin (2 shared issues)
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- Robin Hanson (2 shared issues)
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- 2008 America (1 shared issues)
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- 9-11 (1 shared issues)
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- @agoodmanbacon (1 shared issues)
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- Baicker (1 shared issues)
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- beta-blockers (1 shared issues)
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- Bloodletting (1 shared issues)
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- CATO Unbound (1 shared issues)
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- Cochrane Collaboration (1 shared issues)
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Recovered passages from the original issue text. When the raw archive preserved outbound links inside the source passage, they are listed directly under the quote.
Sommers, Baicker, and Epstein: finds that when some states expanded Medicaid after Obamacare, mortality rate in those states (but not comparison states) went down, p = 0.001. Note that Baicker was one of the main people behind the Oregon experiment.
Inline links: Sommers, Baicker, and Epstein
The Oregon experiment found people got more diabetes drugs, but not that they had less diabetes. However, if you do a power calculation based on the increase in diabetes drugs and the known effect of diabetes drugs, we find that the experiment wouldn’t have detected it even if it was there.