One Difficulty in Conducting Medical Research Is That Participants Often

question 24

Multiple Choice

One difficulty in conducting medical research is that participants often assume that any treatment will be effective in alleviating their symptoms. Therefore, a researcher has to design an experiment that measures the influence of

• A)random selection.
• B)medical confounds.
• C)the Rosenthal effect.
• D)the placebo effect.

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