easy · LSAT Logical Reasoning
A pharmaceutical company claims that its new drug is effective because, in a trial, 80 percent of patients reported feeling better. The trial included no control group receiving a placebo.
The trial is flawed because it fails to:
- Establish how much improvement would have occurred even without the drug's active effect.
- Verify that the patients enrolled were truly representative of the broader patient population.
- Take into account that the drug, besides helping, might also cause harmful side effects.
- Spell out the biological mechanism through which the drug is supposed to improve health.
- Confirm that the drug works equally well in every age group and demographic category.
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