from @resnikoff, excellent, (mostly) on the great polling kerfuffle. https://publiccomment.blog/p/some-slight-issues-with-the-positivist-approach-to-politics
Text: All of which is to say you can't actually do an RCT of universal basic income. You can run an RCT of unconditional cash transfers, but that's not exactly the same thing. UBl is by definition universal: instituting something like a real UBI program anywhere in the United States would transform the entire local economy.