A _____ is a sugar pill given to the control group in a drug study. It appears to be like the pill that contains the active ingredient, but it contains only sugar
a. placebo c. uniform description
b. standard error d. target
A
A placebo is given to equate the procedural features of the experimental and control groups.
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