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If you conduct a placebo-controlled study, but all the participants can correctly guess which group they're in, is it really a placebo-controlled study? No, it
by gruseom 14y ago
If you conduct a placebo-controlled study, but all the participants can correctly guess which group they're in, is it really a placebo-controlled study?
No, it's not, and the question of how many allegedly double-blind studies are compromised by this leakage deserves a lot more attention.