One World View Article in the Text Is Titled "Dying

question 48

Multiple Choice

One World View article in the text is titled "Dying for a Drink of Clean Water." By 2015 the U.N.'s Millennium water goal expects to reduce the percentage of people in the world without safe drinking water by

• A)10 percent.
• B)25 percent.
• C)50 percent.

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Definitions:

Placebo

A substance with no therapeutic effect, often used as a control in testing new drugs.

Fake Treatment

A placebo or sham treatment given to participants in research, which has no therapeutic effect.

Demand Characteristic

Cues in an experimental environment that communicate to participants how they are expected to behave.

Control Group

A control group in scientific experiments is the group of subjects that does not receive the treatment or experimental condition and is used as a benchmark to measure the effects of the treatment.