Essay
A pharmaceutical company has developed a new antidepressant medication and wishes to test its effectiveness. How might extraneous variables, placebo effects, and experimenter bias comprise the results of such a test? How should the company use random assignment, placebos, and a double-blind procedure to maximize the validity of the test?
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