You plan to conduct an experiment to test the effectiveness of Sleepeze, a new drug that is supposed to reduce insomnia. You will use a sample of subjects that are treated with the drug and another sample of subjects that are given a placebo.

1.) What is "blinding" and how might it be used in this experiment?

2.) Describe how you would use replication in this experiment.

I am hoping someone could just explain blinding and replication in the context of this problem. I'm new to statistics and not really sure what they are.

Question

You plan to conduct an experiment to test the effectiveness of Sleepeze, a new drug that is supposed to reduce insomnia. You will use a sample of subjects that are treated with the drug and another sample of subjects that are given a placebo.

1.) What is "blinding" and how might it be used in this experiment?

2.) Describe how you would use replication in this experiment.

I am hoping someone could just explain blinding and replication in the context of this problem. I'm new to statistics and not really sure what they are.