Why Are Patients Who Suffer from Rare Terminal Diseases More

question 126

Multiple Choice

Why are patients who suffer from rare terminal diseases more likely to die if the cost of new drug development is about the same for rare and more common terminal diseases?

• A) Federal regulations require that drugs for common diseases get developed before drugs for rare diseases.
• B) The market is larger for more common diseases,- and so it is more likely drugs would be developed for the common diseases.
• C) Drug firms practice perfect price discrimination.
• D) Drugs for rare and common diseases can be sold as bundled goods.

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Definitions:

Nonexperimental Methods

Research designs that do not involve the manipulation of variables or random assignment of participants.

Randomization

Controlling for the effects of extraneous variables by ensuring that the variables operate in a manner determined entirely by chance.

Experimental Control

Eliminating the influence of an extraneous variable on the outcome of an experiment by keeping the variable constant in the experimental and control groups.

Spurious Relationship

A false association between two variables that appears to be causally linked but is actually due to an extraneous variable.