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PLEASE JOIN ME IN A FUN EXPERIMENT: Let’s design a study that might deceive (almost) everyone
Can I tempt you to run a little (hopefully instructive) thought-experiment with you? It is quite simple: I will tell you about the design of a clinical trial, and you will tell me what the likely outcome of this study would be. Are you game? Here we go: _____________________________________________________________________________ Imagine we conduct a trial of