Thursday, September 2, 2010

story about double placebo


Once upon a time there was like 25 people in a room.  These people were brave and ready to face the upmost task a head of them.  It wasn't exactly deadly or anything it was a double-blind experiment.  Half of the pill bottles were filled with the actually pill and the others were filled with sugar pills which are called placebos.  Double-blind means that the patients and the doctor didn't know who got what pills.  So all of the people gathered nervously into the room not know what pill they would get.  They then got their bottles of pills and were told to come back a week later to see if the pill had done anything to them.  When they got back from the week of service there was drastic changes one 13 of the 25 people.  This was an easy double-blind experiment to test because no one knew what was going to happen.  It turned out that the pill was supposed to make all of your hair fall out and it worked perfectly 12 people came back bald and there was 12 sets of pills sent out the funny thing was the one guy decided to shave his head bald.  So that threw the doctor off for a while, he thought the sugar made everyone balled but the guy soon spoke up and the double-blind experiment was a success.



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