Difference between revisions of "Placebo effect"
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Revision as of 01:35, June 3, 2007
A placebo is a substance or treatment that has no effect on human beings, but is used as a decoy in studies for the "control" part of the sample. In other words, part of the study group will receive a placebo, and the remainder the group will receive the new medication being studied, so that the differences in outcome may be compared.