Your friend told you that she was a member of the placebo group in a recently completed study of a new drug. What is your friend likely to have experienced?

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The placebo group receives a treatment that is not expected to be effective in treating their disorder. This is done so that researchers can compare the effects of the actual treatment with the effects of receiving no treatment at all. If the friend had received no treatment or was put on a waiting list, she would have been in the control group, not the placebo group.

Your Friend Told You That She Was a Member of the Placebo