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Description acceptable. The Lan–DeMets alpha spending function is a flexible measure for deciding whether to take this action. For 10 points each:
[10h] Describe the action that is often taken after passing thresholds like the Haybittle–Peto, O’Brien–Fleming, or Pocock boundaries. This action can be taken due to effect sizes found during interim analysis.
ANSWER: stopping a randomized controlled trial [or stopping a study; or stopping an experiment; accept reasonable equivalents of ending a trial/study/experiment early]
[10e] In a case of stopping a trial for ethical reasons, Christina Maslach convinced Philip Zimbardo to end this uncontrolled experiment in which “guards” like “John Wayne” abused other participants.
ANSWER: Stanford prison experiment
[10m] Michael Kremer and these co-authors of Poor Economics won the 2019 Nobel Prize for randomized controlled trials they started on issues like microloans. Name either of these married economists who co-direct MIT’s Poverty Action Lab.
ANSWER: Esther Duflo OR Abhijit Banerjee
<Editors, Social Science> | S. Playoffs 10 (Editors 10)

HeardPPBE %M %H %
2415.00100%38%13%

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TeamOpponentPart 1Part 2Part 3TotalParts
British ColumbiaToronto B0101020EM
BrownSwarthmore010010E
Chicago ANorthwestern A0101020EM
Chicago BUCF010010E
Columbia BStanford B1010020HE
GeorgetownIllinois B010010E
Georgia Tech AMichigan1010020HE
Georgia Tech CWashU010010E
HarvardNYU A010010E
Johns HopkinsOhio State010010E
MITVanderbilt0101020EM
Maryland AToronto A010010E
Maryland BCornell010010E
MinnesotaPittsburgh010010E
NYU BGeorgia Tech B010010E
North CarolinaPurdue010010E
Penn StateVirginia010010E
RutgersBruin010010E
Stanford AColumbia A10101030HEM
TexasIllinois A0101020EM
UC Berkeley AVirginia Tech0101020EM
UC Berkeley BIndiana0101020EM
UCLACambridge0101020EM
WaterlooNorthwestern B0101020EM

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TournamentEditionMatchHeardPPBE %M %H %
Main Site2026-04-17✓2415.00100%38%13%