Confounding Or Informative Essay: What´s A Placebo Effect?
The placebo effect is when a treatment is not actually given to a patient but is said to be given, and the patient actually feels better because they believe they were given a certain treatment to heal them. It is all in their minds since they were not actually given any sort of medication or treatment. For example, say two people have headaches and one is given a painkiller and one is given a placebo pill and told it is a painkiller. After a certain amount of time, they both say their headache went away, even the person who was given the placebo medicine. This effects confounding and human inference because it makes certain treatments seem unnecessary. If a patient can just be given a placebo treatment to feel better then it is a confounding