Margaret is the new director of research at a well-known pharmaceutical company.She has been asked to design a set of research studies that will test the effectiveness of the new drugs that are being developed.Because Margaret is concerned about ensuring that experimenter bias and research participant bias do not influence the results, she should design a set of

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Margaret should design a set of double-blind experiments to ensure that neither the experimenter nor the research participants are aware of which group (control or experimental) they are assigned to, in order to prevent bias from affecting the results. This is the most effective way to control for bias in scientific research. Case studies, correlational studies, and naturalistic observations do not provide the same level of control over bias.

Margaret Is the New Director of Research at a Well-Known