Wait, if it’s double-blind, wouldn’t the scientists be unaware of whether he got a placebo or the real drug? Although I suppose this could be after the study has concluded. I would bet that in real studies they record the side effects reported before checking to see if it was the placebo or not!
Single blind studies do exist though… For some reason.
If the experimenter never really interacts with the participants and there is no subjective measurement being made there isn’t really any benefit to being double blind, it’s just overhead at that point
Well then, how will they gloat and laugh in the participant’s face like in the comic?
And they’re two scientists so it’s really double single blinded win!
This is basically like the many tests done on gluten sensitivity, where the people who claimed to have it and thought they were given bread claimed the usual symptoms, when they weren’t given anything of the sort. (And vice versa when they were given something they thought had no gluten, but did, and had no ill effects afterwards).
What’s really crazy is that sometimes the placebo can still bring people relief even after knowing that it’s a placebo
Yeah. Though you ethically can’t try to use placebo as a medical treatment, because it’s inconsistent in whether it does anything and is essentially trying to not treat the patient at all with known methods of treatment.
There could are trials on healthy people.
If you know that placebo works, and know that it is placebo, then of course!
Downvoted for not knowing what double blind means.
Wrong answer: Researches who are blind in both eyes only give the medication to participants who are also blind in both eyes, thus making them unable to read the patient information leaflet.
Correct answer: It is a research design in which both the participants and the researchers are unaware of who is receiving the treatment and who is in the control group
Isn’t it where the testers and testees have no idea which is the placebo during testing? I figured this was at the end
Researchers wouldn’t find out until after they question the subjects.
“How is this a double blind study?”
“Well you see, the participant and the scientist are blind.”
😂
Scientist: Tell us what side effects the medication caused?
Test subject: my diabetes somehow is acting up again
Scientist: Oh
Yay for the nocebo effect
I like where this went. I expected from the second panel the patient to make a super long list of symptoms like the American medication commercials where they go very fast over a huge list of possible symptoms.
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