Features
What is the process used in experimental research by which study participants, persons caring for the participants, persons providing the intervention, data collectors and data analysts are kept unaware of group assignment and so are the conductors of the experiment?
What is double blinding?
Using a fake drug in place of medication and not telling the subject or the conductors who got what would be an example of...
What is double blinding?
A study that has a control group must also have...
What is used in clinical trials to test the effectiveness of treatments and is most often used in drug studies?
What is a placebo?
A scientist would like to see the effect of migraine medicine on individuals that have them. One group gets the real medicine, another gets no medicine. What would the latter group be referred to as?
What is a control group?
What does the control group affect?
What is the independent variable?
What is a group that is separated from the rest of the experiment where the independent variable being tested cannot influence the results?
What is a control group?
Using a fake drug in place of medication and not telling the subject would be an example of...
What is blinding?
What would be another name for blinding?
What is the process used in experimental research by which study participants, persons caring for the participants, persons providing the intervention, data collectors and data analysts are kept unaware of group assignment?
What is blinding?
A scientist may use this to observe bias in a study...
What is a placebo?
What would be another name for double-blinding
What is double-masking?
Which feature randomly allocates individuals into groups?
What is randomization?
A scientist wants to take 20 out of 40 runners to see how they compare to the rest. What feature mighty they use?
What is randomization?
What will be used to validate or invalidate the hypothesis?
What is statistical analysis?