Confound selection 3 A drug company developed a new medication to control the ma

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Confound selection 3 A drug company developed a new medication to control the manic phase of bipolar manic-depression. The firm hired a hospital psychiatrist to test the effectiveness of the drug. He identified a group of manic-depressive patients and randomly assigned them to a drug or placebo group. Nurse Ratched was told to administer the drug and Nurse Johnson was told to administer the placebo. Each nurse made daily observations of her patients during treatment. A month later the observations were compared. In general,

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1.The independent variable would be the Drug and/or the placebo administered in this context; and the drug could be an active variable as well, active variable is a variable that can be manipulated.

2. The variable that gives the outcome after a while, and on which (whom) the effects of the independent variable are measured is called the dependent variable. Dependent variable in the above context would be the manic depressive subjects.

3. Confounding variables could be the cognitive biases and cognitive distortions of the given nurses who are reporting the affects.

4. This could be handled by training the nurse or by hiring nurses who are trained and highly objective in terms of reporting.

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