Sometimes in a Drug Study, the Experimental Group Given the Actual

question 275

Multiple Choice

Sometimes in a drug study, the experimental group given the actual drug and the control group given the inactive substance both initially show improvement.This is due to

• A) the Barnum effect.
• B) the placebo effect.
• C) a biased sample.
• D) a random assignment of subjects.

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