RE: [tips] Blinded or Blind Studies

2011-09-15 Thread Lilienfeld, Scott O
t: Wednesday, September 14, 2011 11:00 PM To: Teaching in the Psychological Sciences (TIPS) Subject: Re: [tips] Blinded or Blind Studies Hi James M. Clark Professor of Psychology 204-786-9757 204-774-4134 Fax j.cl...@uwinnipeg.ca >>> Mike Wiliams 14-Sep-11 1:10:07 PM >>> >O

Re: [tips] Blinded or Blind Studies

2011-09-14 Thread Jim Clark
Hi James M. Clark Professor of Psychology 204-786-9757 204-774-4134 Fax j.cl...@uwinnipeg.ca >>> Mike Wiliams 14-Sep-11 1:10:07 PM >>> >Outpatients still get dry mouth and constipation. What underlies my criticism is that humans will reason their way through a study and if they are given bas

RE: [tips] Blinded or Blind Studies

2011-09-14 Thread Bourgeois, Dr. Martin
Your criticism sounds simplistic to me, in that it assumes that all patients in the drug conditions suffer side effects, and no patients in the placebo condition do. In fact, we've know for years that placebos can in fact cause side effects. A Google Scholar search pulls up scores of references