In a drug trial investigating the effects of a new drug, neither the research scientists nor the participants know if they are in the treatment or the control group. What does this type of study design control for?

A) experimenter bias
B) extraneous variables
C) placebo effect
D) spurious correlations
E) non-random assignment


A) experimenter bias

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