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A procedure in which the participants do NOT know which group is the experimental group and which is the control group is known as
A
a Double-Blind Procedure.
B
a Single-Blind Procedure.
C
the Placebo Effect.
D
the Validity Effect.
Explanation: 

Detailed explanation-1: -This situation is a single-blind study, meaning that one of the groups (participants) are unaware as to which group they are in (experiment or control group) while the researcher who developed the experiment knows which participants are in each group.

Detailed explanation-2: -(SING-gul-blind STUH-dee) A type of clinical trial in which only the researcher doing the study knows which treatment or intervention the participant is receiving until the trial is over.

Detailed explanation-3: -Single-blind usually means that the research participant is not told of the treatment assignment. Double-blind usually means that the research participant, investigator, study coordinator/nurse, study sponsor, and in some cases the data analyst are kept unaware of the treatment assignment.

Detailed explanation-4: -Blinding refers to the concealment of group allocation from one or more individuals involved in a clinical research study, most commonly a randomized controlled trial (RCT).

Detailed explanation-5: -A type of clinical trial in which neither the participants nor the researcher knows which treatment or intervention participants are receiving until the clinical trial is over. This makes results of the study less likely to be biased.

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