Hey everyone.
I'm writing a paper and have to analyze this investigation for psychology. There's some questions I hope you guys could clear up for me.
First off the participants are hallucinogenic virgins who participate in religious or spiritual activities. 36 people were used in the study picked in a random way, although all are healthy with no previous histories of psychotic disorders.
Two or three sessions were done at 2 month intervals. Thirty volunteers got psilocybin and methylphenidate in counterbalanced order. To obscure the study design six extra volunteers received methylphenidate in the first two sessions and unblinded psilocybin in a third session.
My question is why are they using that 6 group of participants, it seems confusing to me. And i don't know what they mean by this is a double blind between group crossover design that involved 2 or 3 eight hour sessions at 2 month interval . (by the way i know what double blind means)
Also I think this study is an experiment? Would you agree or is it also a correlation?
Note: If more information about study is needed let me know, its quite an elaborate study.
I'm writing a paper and have to analyze this investigation for psychology. There's some questions I hope you guys could clear up for me.
First off the participants are hallucinogenic virgins who participate in religious or spiritual activities. 36 people were used in the study picked in a random way, although all are healthy with no previous histories of psychotic disorders.
Two or three sessions were done at 2 month intervals. Thirty volunteers got psilocybin and methylphenidate in counterbalanced order. To obscure the study design six extra volunteers received methylphenidate in the first two sessions and unblinded psilocybin in a third session.
My question is why are they using that 6 group of participants, it seems confusing to me. And i don't know what they mean by this is a double blind between group crossover design that involved 2 or 3 eight hour sessions at 2 month interval . (by the way i know what double blind means)
Also I think this study is an experiment? Would you agree or is it also a correlation?
Note: If more information about study is needed let me know, its quite an elaborate study.
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