Introduction to Experimental Design

AP Statistics· difficulty 1/5

Subjects in a clinical trial swallow either a real pill or a sugar pill that looks identical.

Real pill Sugar pill Both look identical Subjects cannot tell which they got

The sugar pill is best described as a

  • A

    Block

  • B

    Placebo

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  • C

    Replicate

  • D

    Confounder

Explanation

A placebo is an inactive treatment indistinguishable from the real one, used to control for psychological effects of receiving a treatment.

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