Practice - Placebos and Blinding
Practice Questions
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What is a placebo?
💡 Hint: Think about treatments that are not real.
Define blinding in research.
💡 Hint: It relates to keeping secrets in experiments.
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Interactive Quizzes
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What is the placebo effect?
💡 Hint: Think about mind over matter.
True or False: Blinding prevents any and all biases in research.
💡 Hint: Consider how bias can still appear.
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Challenge Problems
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Consider a case study where a fitness coach introduces a new training regime. Discuss how they could implement placebos and blinding to assess the regime's effectiveness.
💡 Hint: Think about how beliefs can influence their performance.
How would you critique a study that didn't employ blinding or a placebo when assessing a new dietary supplement's effects on performance?
💡 Hint: Reflect on how expectations might skew results.
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