Researchers do NOT attempt to overcome the effects of treatment illusions in outcome studies by:

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Specifying that both control and treatment groups always have equal numbers of males and females would not overcome the effects of treatment illusions in outcome studies. This strategy could be useful for addressing issues of gender bias, but it would not have an impact on the potential for treatment illusions in the study. The other options (designing double-blind experiments, using a placebo treatment condition, and randomly selecting participants from the same population) would all be useful for reducing the impact of treatment illusions on the study results.

Researchers Do NOT Attempt to Overcome the Effects of Treatment