An example of the placebo effect is when 50 subjects in a study receive a pill that contains Vitamin A, and another 50 subjects receive a pill that does not contain any nutrients, but none of the 100 study participants know if they received the pill that contained the vitamin A or not.
a. true
b. false
a. true
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