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When conducting a double-blind medical study the group taking the placebo is called the control group what is the other group called?
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It is called the "Test" group.
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A scientist is giving patients a sugar pill that has not medical properties what is this pill called?
A medication given in research that has no medical properties is called a placebo
What pill has no medical properties?
A placebo.
What is a pill called that has no medical properties?
Placebo.
A placebo is a medication that elicits a positive emotional response in an experimental subject?
Actually, a placebo is a substance or treatment with no therapeutic effect that is used as a control in medical research. It allows researchers to isolate the true effects of a treatment by comparing the results from the actual treatment group to those from the placebo group.
When testing a new drug researchers control for a placebo effect by using?
A placebo effect
Explain the relationship between a placebo and a control group?
Let's say a medical lab is doing en experiment. They would take a control group and give a certain % of people the placebo and the rest a real drug and compare the affects it had on the patients. One argument is if people "believe" they are taking the real drug it can actually affect them physically.
What are sugar pills given in medical test considered to be?
The sugar pills in a medical test are known as the placebo.
What is an inert substance given to the control group and has no effects on the group?
A placebo
What is the medical term meaning a substance containing no active ingredients?
"Placebo". Alternatively, "homeopathy".
A scientist is giving patients a sugar pill that has no medical properties. What is this pill called?
Placebo
If you start taking placebo pills and have not started your menstrual cycle are you at risk of being pregnant?
A placebo has no medical properties at all so, yes, you would be at risk of getting pregnant.
What is a state of control in a experiment?
it is the aspect of the expierment that acts as the control meaing you do nothing to it. i.e if you have 3 people and you test two of them with a drug and give one a placebo yet none of the three knows who is getting what. you then compare the results thus the one you gave the placebo to acts as the control.
