An experiment was conducted to test whether aspirin improves performance. In the experiment, students at Montgomery College were given an aspirin and students at Frederick College we given a sugar pill (but they were told that it was aspirin) before their Psychology classes. The students who were given the aspirin performed better on the exams (average score 94%) than the subjects who were given the sugar pill (average score 74%). Question: What was the effect of the sugar pill in this experiment? Explain.

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