Does meditation reduce anxiety? An experiment that claimed to show thatmeditation
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Does meditation reduce anxiety? An experiment that claimed to show thatmeditation reduces anxiety proceeded as follows. The experimenter interviewedthe subjects and rated their level of anxiety. Then the subjects were randomlyassigned to two groups. The experimenter taught one group how to meditate andthey meditated daily for a month. The other group was simply told to relax more.At the end of the month, the experimenter interviewed all the subjects againand rated their anxiety level. The meditation group now had less anxiety.Psychologists said that the results were suspect because the ratings were not blind.Explain what this means and how lack of blindness could bias the reportedresults.
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