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What is a placebo treatment?

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The placebo treatment is given to the control group in this experiment to have something to compare to the experimental group A placebo is a sugar pill that looks just like the actual medication that the experimental group is getting
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- A placebo is anything that seems to be a "real" medical treatment -- but isn't.
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