#control group

[greater-than-the-sword]

Kidnapped and experimented on by aliens but I was in the control group so nothing happened

[bowyer35]

*Helena Eagan created a special department just to roleplay with Mark Scout until she could obtain measurable results because she doesn't know any other way to have healthy interactions:

"You...interest me." Helena tried to sound feminine.

"I interest you? Um...okayyyy?" Mark Scout wondered what was happening. "How did I get here? I just woke up and--"

"No need to be concerned, a Glasgow Block is on you, uh, both of us, so, there's limited risk..."

"Wait, so, we're at Lumon? Right now?"

"Yes, I...just feel more comfortable here." Mark was feeling a bit claustrophobic and looking around to see what was within reach.

"So this is like farmhouse living or something? You have a fantasy of being a domestic goddess living in a Norman Rockwell painting?" Mark sarcastically joked.

"Something like that." Helena had a deadly serious face in a millisecond. "I want to make--- I NEED to make this work, Mark."

"Make what work?"

"Us, Mark." She sauntered over close to him as she slowly uttered his name. He was tensing up. He could feel a bit of reintegration sickness glitching coming on like knowing you're about to sneeze.

"Helena Eagan...Leader in Waiting..." Mark said what Mr. Milchick had told him in the elevator, trying to stall.

"I can't wait any longer..." Helena began kissing Mark and moaning in desperation, trying to maintain composure, but unable to stay in character of her experimental department. "Gimme-- Gimme it NOW."🤤🥵

[fivehundredwords]

why are control groups important?

(if dr. doofenschmirtz had recruited a control group one (1) time.. )

experiment groups: a part of the total sample which undergoes treatment.

control groups: that part of the total sample which is not subjected to the experiment, but is vital in deciding the significance of results obtained.

if a control group is absent in a trial which tests whether a treatment truly works, there is no normal to compare it with. the treatment was created to be better than the current conventional treatment or no known cure at all. without a control group, there is no way to confirm that the treatment is the better option from now on.

therefore, a control group is not the less imporant group. results of different types of studies are more reliable based on how well the control group was designed. yes, designed.

while testing a drug, its effect is compared against a control group, which is given no drug at all or is given placebo (for eg., giving a sugar cube and having people believe they've been given the drug). these are called the untreated control group and placebo control group, respectively.

in some studies, the researchers and participants themselves do not know the control group. the analysis and results are thoroughly unbiased here. this is called a double-blinded control group.

people in the wait list control group receive treatment after experiment is complete, in case they suffer bad consequences due to the experiment. this is extremely important to consider when recruiting patients with depression, anxiety, cardiac problems, etc.

two broader classifications are positive and negative control groups. in the former, researchers expect a known outcome (for eg., giving the control group a known and effective drug for a particular condition); in the latter, no effect is expected (no drug or placebo is given to the control group).

in randomized controlled trials (RCTs), the total sample is sorted into control and experiment groups randomly, to avoid bias. RCTs are considered the gold standard and are the most common.

an interesting method of building a suitable control group is to find a near identical match for each member of the experiment group. this is used in studies where a common baseline condition cannot be established across the total sample. these are used in observational studies as well.

that said, a number of questions need to be answered. is the control group selected ethical? is there a chance the selected control group might produce unwanted results in parameters that are not being observed in this study?

in conclusion, a control group ensures that the findings in a study are real and not just believed to be real.

"controlled conditions" is a frequent phrase to encounter in research, especially in clinical research.

researchers design studies to understand the phenomenon they are studying. this means each step, from hypothesis to publishing the article is carefully considered. likewise, the conditions under which to study this phenomenon are controlled. this means that anything that isn't being studied should not behave abnormally.

these conditions are easier to achieve in a sample of cultured cells than in a living organism. they are incredibly difficult to achieve in behavioral or related fields of study because behavior and interactions among living beings are difficult to moderate without intervention and thus awareness of those being observed.

[babyspacebatclone]

It completely depends on the caliber of mad scientist!!

Some people respect the scientific method!!

I remember someone saying "mad scientists in fiction aren't scientists because there's never a control group"

I think if you've created an elixir that turns people into goat men you have sort have gone past the need for a control group. The control group is not going to placebo themselves into goat men. You can probably not run the control group, and safely assume that none of them would have turned into goat men. That said, having a control group for that would make the mad scientist seem extra crazy and be really really funny, especially if he was carefully testing them for goat like features from the dyed water they drank instead of the elixir

[goomyloid]

The remorseful player

[qiinamii]

one braincell transfer (divided by four)

[zeropro]

Sooo... who's worried about Sunny exploding because that's dangerous for others, who because this will be an inconvenient mess and who because they actullally care about him and don't want him dead?

Wonder if Star still has the "literally so what?" attitude about that ;-;

About Star's attitude on Sunstorm...

tfw you receive validation from your creepy clone?

[the follow up…]

[sunbeamedskies]

If you see articles and tweets about how the Star of David is now a symbol of fascism and think to yourself "maybe they have a point," then whatever you define as your antizionism has absolutely crossed the line into antisemitism

The Star of David is one of the most important symbols in Judaism. The fact that it is on the flag of Israel does not make it fascist. The government of Israel is separate from the symbol. Labeling such a widely used symbol by a marginalized people as fascist is incredibly dangerous and seeks to conflate Jews as a whole with the Israeli government- something antizionists continually claim people shouldn't do. So why are some doing it?

High control groups slowly ease you into believing nonsensical things. They provide "reasoning" and "logic" which goes largely unchallenged within echo chambers. People in these echo chambers are prone to believing it because they start to see it as real logic instead of bigoted, twisted reasoning. Even otherwise intelligent people can fall for their prejudices as they begin to view it as a form of justice

It is a fantasy that high control group leaders go from 0 to 100 in five minutes or refuse to answer any questions- they are usually much more manipulative

Please confront your biases. The Jews are tired

[progress-lib]

Control group figure drawings, the left is without reference, and the right has the reference next to it. This is the first time I drew figures in years. (Refrence from animereferenceposes.com and the other is AI generated)

[destielmemenews]

"Publishers accused the nonprofit of infringing copyrights in 127 books from authors like Malcolm Gladwell, C.S. Lewis, Toni Morrison, J.D. Salinger and Elie Wiesel, by making the books freely available through its Free Digital Library.

The archive, which hosts more than 3.2 million copies of copyrighted books on its website, contended that the library was transformative because it made lending more convenient and served the public interest by promoting "access to knowledge.""

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[divineandmajesticinone]

Cha Woo-min as Pi Han UI STUDY GROUP (2025)

[unassimilatedsoul]

You say “unnecessary control groups”, but there are actually several things that could be considered a “placebo Saturn V”, with “flight simulator” being the most obvious

On a related note:

https://xkcd.com/507/

Now rotating other unnecessary control groups in my head.

"Oh, you're a rocket scientist? When do you put the astronauts on the placebo Saturn V?"

"have you tried sending the particles through a fake accelerator to make sure they're not just doing that because they don't like tunnels?"

"where is your control volcano? you can't know that mount saint helens' head didn't just do that"

[emacrow]

Raven found a Feral Farshee and saved a town

Teen Titans got an alert for another candidate from titans east only the signal led to a broken titan in the middle of a dark foggy and scary woods in the middle of Illinois that seems to be causing the other to hallucinations and get lost.

Raven seems to be the only one immune to this as the teen titans got picked off one by one, distracted by something only to end by the shadows and a terrifying wail that scared the living souls out of them.

This was worse than movie night when her powers went out of control due to fear, except she beaten her own fears.

She know there was someone or something in this woods causing all of this and whatever it was, it was in pain, a whole lot of pain to steal everyone who seem to wander in the woods without hurting them.

Perhaps to absorb safety to distract itself from its own pain is what raven was thinking until she found the source.

In a barren broken town covered in frozen snow and ice. An old cracked sign covered fully in overgrown frozen vines barely said anything until she used her telekinesis to move them.

Welcome to Amity Park. It's a nice place to live! Home to the most famous sup- phant-! What was the sign said if it weren't for the evacuation and Do Not Cross tape and signs all around it.

There wasn't a place like this on the map, let alone on the Titan tracker that wasn't working anymore.

It was cold, below 20 winter cold as Raven flew in the town.

She could feel the eyes of something staring at her as she anazyling the town.

Something had happened here, something big as she was seeing ice statues of varieties ages people in clothes, shoes around stuck in place as if their were doing normal town things or running from something.

More and more statues in clothes, hats, dress, police uniforms, suits, etc she kept finding as she flew by..

Only to stop at a familiar statue.. it was Robin, except he was frozen completely like a ice statue except his Robin uniform were still on with his titan communiater in his hand still pressing the buttons as if he was shouting about something.

Her heart dropped as most teen titans members were here, along with a Titans east frozen like ice statues.

Before her eyes caught something, bringing another statue. She dipped into the shadows immediately.

"Safe, must keep everyone safe, safe, safe in forever ice, nobody can get hurt now, all safe, they can't leave through the portal, all safe..."

Watching as a very long white-haired boy wearing a frozen crown floating in a black hazmat suit and a mystical cape, carry beast boy frozen in ice statue like state as a frighten falcon with one claw out.

He was much taller than cyborg, but thinner than a scarecrow, four arms, with exposed skin on his long hand paler than sickening white paint with lines of blue.

His eyes were dull blue, wearing a necklace glowing a bright ominous blue, a familiar necklace tied with a simple gold thread she had read about once.

A curse necklace of power, thought to have been lost in a bargaining chip with the infinite realm King due to twisted and corrupt the user's power to gain control over them unless forcefully taken off or cut off, reverting the effects.

It seemed to taken over this person completely.

She thought of a plan easy enough for her to snap it. Manifesting a pair of thin shadow scissors to cut the gold thread through.

Hearing the sharp snip cut through the necklace immediately alerted his attention toward her, only for the snapped necklace to drop on the floor.

Dull blue eyes shrank before a glowing green and sharp pupil revealed themselves in his eyes before rolling upwards, gravity taking effect immediately for him to collapse on the floor immediately.

The guy fell into a deep sleep as she kept him contain in a giant shadow grasp, probably out of exhaustion as the status of her teammates started to thaw out, skin exposed as the ice practically fell off them.

Each teammate suddenly gasped for air. It wasn't just them as the town itself was melting, ice cracking, noise of people were gasping or mid screaming, coming back to life from the frozen prison.

The culprit, who cause all this was still asleep, suddenly had a flash of light surrounding them as long silvery mixed with black hair teen very malnourished thin lay in the shadow grasp.

Before Raven could explain, the town folks were suddenly holding strange guns glowing green.

"Let fenton go, you creeps!"

Part 2 -> here

[lingrimmart]

dan apologized and herbert weaponized it instantly

[somegrumpynerd]

Teaching Dream about the internet may have been a mistake

[demi-pixellated]

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