Question

Read the following paragraph and answer the question that follows:
An accurate measure of drug efficacy would require comparing the response of patients taking it with that of patients taking placebos; the drug effect could then be calculated by subtracting the placebo response from the overall response, much as a deli-counter worker subtracts the weight of the container to determine how much lobster salad you’re getting. In the last half of the 1950s, this calculus gave rise to a new way to evaluate drugs: the double-blind, placebo-controlled clinical trial, in which neither patient nor clinician knew who was getting the active drug and who the placebo.
Which of the options is a wrong answer to this Question How does a double-blind ensure a better trial of a new drug?

• A. It increases the overall response to the drug.
• B. The patient does not know whether he/she is getting a placebo.
• C. It reflects the calculus exemplified by the deli-counter episode.
• D. The clinician cannot pick and choose patients to whom placebos can be administered.
• E. It gives rise to an unbiased testing of drugs.

Answer 1

Answer: (A)

It increases the overall response to the drug.

Answer 2

The correct option is (A) :It increases the overall response to the drug..