Blinding
A procedure for ensuring that researchers and research participants don’t know which intervention the participants received
Clinical Trial
A scientific study designed to systematically test a medical intervention in humans.
Placebo
An inactive or sham treatment
Randomization
The assigning of subjects randomly to both experimental and control groups.
Equipoise
When researches don’t have reason to believe that a particular treatment is better than another; may help justify the use of control/placebo groups in clinical trials (since it’s unclear if control group participants are being denied effective treatment)