The Georgia Company, a pharmaceutical company, recently conducted a study in which 20 people were given a new drug and 20 other people were given a placebo. The objective was to determine whether there was a difference in pain relief between those using the new drug versus those using the placebo. The data collection used here is an example of an experiment.

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This is an experiment because it involves deliberately manipulating one variable (the administration of the new drug versus a placebo) to observe its effect on another variable (pain relief), with the participants being randomly assigned to either the treatment or control group.

The Georgia Company, a Pharmaceutical Company, Recently Conducted a Study