A company that manufactures a popular multivitamin wanted to determine whether their multivitamin had any side effects. For its initial study, the company chose 2000 individuals to take one of their multivitamin tablets per day for one year. Scientists from the company surveyed the participants to determine whether they had experienced any side effects. What was wrong with the company’s study on side effects?

In any research or trial of medicine requires to test if there are any side effects associated with the medicine or supplements. In this type of research, there must be two groups one that gets treatment and the other group gets no treatment during the trial.

The group of subjects that get the treatment is the experimental group and the second group of subjects, is the control group which is used to compare the result.

In the given study or research, the control group is not used.

akposevictor akposevictor · Answer 2 · 2021-09-24T17:01:48+02:00

The study did not use a control group.

Scientific research especially medical research usually have two groups they study.

That is, the subjects or experimental units are placed into any of these two groups:

Treatment/experimental group: This group receives the treatment, which in the case stated in the question, the treatment is the multivitamin.
Control Group: No treatment (multivitamin is given), rather a placebo in form of a the multivitamin is given.

Therefore, what was wrong with the study conducted by the compony is that they did not use a control group which would enable them compare results gotten from the treatment group.

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