DAVID J. TORGERSON is Director of York Trials Unit, University of York, UK. He has published extensively on randomised trial design and has worked on trials in health and educational research. CAROLE J. TORGERSON is a Senior Research Fellow in the Institute for Effective Education at the University of York, UK. She has published extensively in the field of systematic reviews of randomised trials. She is Co-Chair of the Campbell Collaboration Education Co-ordinating Group. She has also worked on a number of randomised trials in the field of education.