Researchers Do NOT Attempt to Overcome the Effects of Treatment

question 120

Multiple Choice

Researchers do NOT attempt to overcome the effects of treatment illusions in outcome studies by:

• A)designing double-blind experiments.
• B)using a placebo treatment condition.
• C)specifying that both control and treatment groups always have equal numbers of males and females.
• D)randomly selecting participants from the same population of patients for the treatment group and the control group.

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