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In medical research, scientists need to know if a new medication is effective; so, during testing, they give one group the actual medication and one group a placebo (a sugar pill, that looks like medicine). Neither group is told which one they are getting. In the end, the hope is that the group that received the medicine will feel much better than the group that just got the placebo. Sometimes, though, there is not much difference, at which point the researchers know the medication probably is not effective enough.
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What is an inert substance given to the control group and has no effects on the group?
A placebo
A placebo is a medication that elicits a positive emotional response in an experimental subject?
A placebo is used in an experiment as a control. For example, when testing a new medication, experimenters will split the group in two- a control group and an experimental group. The experimental group receives the actual medication, while the control group receives a placebo (in this case, a sugar pill). The placebo will not have any actual effect on the person, but is meant to make sure people aren't making themselves believe that they are cured.
What are the factors in a controlled experiment called?
control group and placebo group variable and controlled
What is two groups that are identical to control groups?
Placebo control group: This group receives a placebo treatment that resembles the intervention but has no active ingredients or effect. No-treatment control group: This group does not receive any treatment or intervention, serving as a comparison to the group receiving the intervention.
What is a placebo group included in clinical trials?
to see the side effects
What does the controlled group take instead of the real drug?
They take a Placebo .
Why is a placebo group included in clinical trials?
sometimes just taking a pill will make people think they are getting better when they really aren't. when you include a placebo group, you can take away the percent that thought they were getting better from the group that was taking the real pills to get a more realistic answer of how the pills are making people feel.
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.
Can you have a sentence with the word control group in it?
Sure. "After all the subjects in the control group take the normal pill we'll give the test group subjects the placebo without telling them.
What are placebo?
Placebo pills are just pills with no active ingredient in them. they are just psychological medication which does often work. they are given to patients who think they are ill but are not, it is just in their mind, so they take the placebo pill thinking it will make them better and very often it works. The word Placebo means fake. There for a Placebo pill must be a "fake" pill which basically means an empty pill.
To minimize the extent to which outcome differences between experimental and control groups can be attributed to placebo effects researchers make use of?
random assignment of participants to groups, blinding both participants and researchers to group assignment, and including a control group that receives a placebo treatment or standard care.
Why are scientist using a placebo?
Scientists use a placebo to check that the variable they are changing actually is responsible for the results they see. It is like a control experiment, allowing you to compare the trial with it to see if there is any effect. It also counteracts the "placebo effect". For example, this is when someone taking a drug calims they "feel better" despite the drug not actually having any effect. Therefore, by giving some test subjects a placebo and some the drug being tested and not telling them which is which, you can eliminate the placebo effect from the test.
