for question 3: how would having people not wear insoles at all cause a placebo effect, at least compared to having them wear the normal insoles?

The fact that the Treatment group has received something that the Control group hasn't might psychologically impact the Treatment group. The Treatment group might become more confident having received extra equipment. Compared to the Control group that didn't get to experience that little burst of excitement we all get from being introduced to something new.

>Problem 2: What is the primary purpose of randomly assigning the runners to use either the new or existing insoles? Roughly similar groups also reduce the confounding effect, right? Why should the answer not be B

Having 2 roughly similar groups doesn't guarantee that you might not have to deal with any confounding variables.

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Course: AP®︎/College Statistics > Unit 6

Lesson 4: Introduction to experimental design

Principles of experiment design

AP.STATS:

VAR‑3 (EU)

VAR‑3.A.4 (EK)

VAR‑3.B (LO)

VAR‑3.B.1 (EK)

VAR‑3.C (LO)

VAR‑3.C.1 (EK)

VAR‑3.C.4 (EK)

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HSS.IC.B.3

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Elle
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for question 3: how would having people not wear insoles at all cause a placebo effect, at least compared to having them wear the normal insoles?
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  The fact that the Treatment group has received something that the Control group hasn't might psychologically impact the Treatment group. The Treatment group might become more confident having received extra equipment. Compared to the Control group that didn't get to experience that little burst of excitement we all get from being introduced to something new.
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>Problem 2: What is the primary purpose of randomly assigning the runners to use either the new or existing insoles?

Roughly similar groups also reduce the confounding effect, right? Why should the answer not be B
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Why should question 2 be A and not B?
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- Chennu Wang
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  There is no reason that the experiment might limit replication. However, since the runners do not know which insoles they were given, it might create a placebo effect, where the runner thinks it will make running easier.
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In question 3 option 3 is also reasonably correct as we can say that by not providing insole to one group the study will become sort of observational as we can correlate whether having insole is reducing the shin splints. I agree that option 1 is most appropriate but again why option 3 shall be incorrect that I would like to know..
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what is confounding?
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