American technology entrepreneur and conservative intellectual — founder of Applied Predictive Technologies (sold to MasterCard) — senior fellow at the Manhattan Institute — author of Uncontrolled (on the limits of social science and the case for policy experimentation).
Creates the randomized controlled trial framework for policy — Uncontrolled's argument (that we should subject policy to the same experimental rigor as clinical medicine, and that most social science cannot tell us what works) is the most rigorous methodological critique of progressive policy making.
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