How to stop rape: ground-breaking work in Nairobi by a group of Stanford statisticians

(American Statistical Association) The NGO No Means No Worldwide approached Stanford researchers to assess the impact of its programs. By randomly assigning some schools to training and others to being delayed in receiving the training, Stanford's Micchael Baiocchi and collaborators could estimate the overall impact of the program. The first trial involved 5,000 girls in 28 schools in Nairobi's slums. The result was striking, the training cut the rate of sexual assault in half.
Source: EurekAlert! - Medicine and Health - Category: International Medicine & Public Health Source Type: news