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If a drug produces noticeable side effects, it is likely that studies will suffer from an unblinding effect which will cause overstatement of efficacy of the drug. This is because in a properly blinded study, the placebo effect is the same* for both the active drug and the placebo, so we can calculate the true efficacy by subtracting*. Unblinding causes the ...
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