Question

A mad scientist develops a new memory pill and wishes to test it on a group of 11th grade students. He has a large number of sugar pills manufactured that look and taste exactly like the memory pills. He asks the manufacturer to prepare 50 envelopes, each containing a month's worth of doses of the memory pills, and 50 more envelopes with the same doses of sugar pills.

The manufacturer then randomly labels the 100 envelopes with numbers from 00 to 99 and delivers them to the scientist. It has recorded which numbers go with the real pills, but it doesn't tell him.

Answer 1

Which of the following adjectives describes this experiment?

A. Double-blind
B. Explanatory
C. Hawthorne
D. Blocked
E. Multi-factor

Answer 2

@jim_thompson5910 @Numb3r1 @amistre64 @Luis_Rivera @algebra2sucks

Answer 3

does the mad scientist know which envelopes are the memory pills and which are the placebos?

Answer 4

Again, this should be in the psychology group. However, it seems to me that neither the scientist nor the students would know which envelopes are memory pills and which are placebo.

Answer 5

I do not think the mad scientist or the students know, I gave you all the information it gave me. (This is on my Algebra II paper) If this is the case, would it be A. Double-Blind? @Numb3r1 @jim_thompson5910

Answer 6

Yup.
Now, if you'll excuse me, I'm logging off.

Answer 7

Thank you for all your help!!! @Numb3r1