Multiple Choice
The drug manufacturer Merck recently stopped testing a promising new drug to treat depression. It turned out that in a randomized, double-blind trial a dummy pill did almost as well as the new drug. The fact that many people respond to a dummy treatment is called
A) confounding.
B) nonresponse.
C) comparison.
D) the placebo effect.
Correct Answer:
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Correct Answer:
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