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OpenStudy (anonymous):

Help please

OpenStudy (anonymous):

there is no control group

OpenStudy (anonymous):

are you 100 percent sure?

OpenStudy (anonymous):

what is control group ?

OpenStudy (anonymous):

control group is a group that you don't do anything to for comparison

OpenStudy (anonymous):

or that you give a placebo to to make sure improvements are not the result of the placebo effect

OpenStudy (anonymous):

okay and is D correct 100 percent?

OpenStudy (anonymous):

To me any one of those can be correct im not sure?

OpenStudy (anonymous):

let's go through the options one by one, shall we?

OpenStudy (anonymous):

Option A: there are slightly fewer women than men in the study, but the sample sizes are acceptable.

OpenStudy (anonymous):

That is true there are fewer woman than men tested?

OpenStudy (anonymous):

yes, but I don't think it's significant.

OpenStudy (anonymous):

okay next

OpenStudy (anonymous):

Options B and C: things like this don't make a study valid, what makes a study valid is a LACK of things that make it INVALID. Only choose things like this if the study is valid, and then I would go with one like C before one like B.

OpenStudy (anonymous):

Group size isn't as important as people think it is.

OpenStudy (anonymous):

the important one is Option D. In a study there should ALWAYS be a control group that is either given no treatment or a placebo treatment.

OpenStudy (anonymous):

Isn't that in an experiment this is only a study or are they the same?

OpenStudy (anonymous):

a study like this is a kind of experiment.

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