Guest Posted March 30, 2008 Report Share Posted March 30, 2008 You have to test a pill for its effectiveness. You have 100 pills and 100 sugar cubes looking like pills. How would you design an experiment for this test? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
0 Guest Posted March 30, 2008 Report Share Posted March 30, 2008 do a 200 person randomly selected double blind test... But not sure I would call this a brain teaser Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
0 itachi-san Posted March 30, 2008 Report Share Posted March 30, 2008 do a 200 person randomly selected double blind test... But not sure I would call this a brain teaser Agreed. Even if the point is that we don't know which pills are sugar and which pills are real, the double-blind test with 200 people will still prove the effectiveness by the number of participants who show the desired effects of the real pill. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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You have to test a pill for its effectiveness. You have 100 pills and 100 sugar cubes looking like pills. How would you design an experiment for this test?
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