easy · Enhanced ACT science
A scientist tested whether a new medicine lowers blood pressure. One group of patients received the medicine, and another group received a sugar pill that looked identical but had no medicine in it.
Why did the scientist give one group a sugar pill?
- To serve as a control for comparison
- To increase the medicine's effect
- To make the study cost less
- To test a second new medicine
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