Provide an Appropriate Response

question 6

Multiple Choice

Provide an appropriate response.
-A nutritionist wants to conduct a study to validate the efficacy of an herb as an aid in weight loss. She randomly
Assigns half of a group of overweight persons to a treatment group who are given the herb with instructions as
To use and a planned diet for six weeks. The other half of the group is given the same diet without the herb.
Participants are aware as to which group they belong. A nurse at the nutrition center weighs each subject on
Friday of each week. Identify any problems that are likely to cause confounding.

• A)The placebo effect
• B)Method of assignment to treatment and control groups
• C)Experimenter effect
• D)The study is essentially free of confounding sources.

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