790: Control - Revision history

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2A00:23C6:5D52:7C01:4848:E9FF:FE57:78AF at 15:22, 26 November 2025

2025-11-26T15:22:25Z

172.69.43.174: /* Explanation / Just to give air to the (unlikely) possibility that the flailing arms are* reduplicated ones. ;)

2024-05-31T13:53:38Z

‎Explanation: Just to give air to the (unlikely) possibility that the flailing arms *are* reduplicated ones. ;)

172.70.85.6: /* Explanation */ Depends upon protocol. These may even not be the study-administering folks, but the ones dealing with the aftercare.

2024-05-31T13:23:27Z

‎Explanation: Depends upon protocol. These may even not be the study-administering folks, but the ones dealing with the aftercare.

172.70.175.62: /* Explanation */

2024-05-30T21:29:20Z

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Elektrizikekswerk: /* Explanation */ Removed alternative interpretation which is not "unlikely" but absurd. LSD doesn't do that

2024-05-22T11:49:36Z

‎Explanation: Removed alternative interpretation which is not "unlikely" but absurd. LSD doesn't do that

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TheusafBOT: Reverted edit 336221 by 108.162.245.166 to 321406

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 :My Hobby:
-:[Cueball looks down at his arm calmly, while next to him Megan is violently flailing around in terror. In the foreground a Cueball-like guy stands next to Ponytail who is holding a clipboard. They look on in puzzlement.]
+:[Cueball looks down at his arm calmly, while next to him Megan is violently flailing around in terror, making it seem as if she has six arms. In the foreground a Cueball-like guy stands next to Ponytail who is holding a clipboard. They look on in puzzlement.]
 :Cueball: My rash seems to have shrunk by about 20% today.
 :Megan: OH GOD SPIDERS

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 This is another comic in the [[:Category:My Hobby|My Hobby series]]. In a product experiment, two groups of people are given a certain pill or lotion. Some people are given the product to be tested, while others (the control group) are given a placebo; nobody is told which group they belong to. The control group acts as a norm for comparison against the others.
-Randall has messed with this process by giving LSD ({{w|lysergic acid diethylamide}}) to the control group. LSD is a drug that causes hallucinations and distortions in the perception of time and space. [[Megan]], apparently a control, is experiencing spiders in her hallucinations. Since the control group is supposed to reflect what "normally" happens, this is indeed very confusing to the scientists. While hallucinating in the comic Megan is drawn as if she has six arms indicating that she's waving her arms. Though this also makes her look (together with her lower limbs) as if she has eight 'legs', in the manner of an actual spider.
+Randall has messed with this process by giving LSD ({{w|lysergic acid diethylamide}}) to the control group. LSD is a drug that causes hallucinations and distortions in the perception of time and space. [[Megan]], apparently a control, is experiencing spiders in her hallucinations. Since the control group is supposed to reflect what "normally" happens, this is indeed very confusing to the scientists. While hallucinating in the comic Megan is drawn as if she has six arms indicating that she's waving her arms, though this also makes her look (together with her lower limbs) as if she has eight 'legs', in the manner of an actual spider.
 The scientists are confused. This may mean that, in the light of the unusual adverse events, they have executed the option of unblinding the study. This implies that the trial has (or is being) ended, as not being double-blinded itself impacts the veracity of a continuing study. In a properly double-blinded study, the scientists would not know Cueball or [[Megan]] was the control and would only dutifully record their observations. However, it may be equally confusing even if they don't yet know which cohorts either participant are members of (for all they know, these two are from the same one), as the treatment may or may not be creating hallucinations even as the non-treatment may or may not seem to clear up rashes.

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 [[Category:Comics featuring Ponytail]]
 [[Category:Multiple Cueballs]]
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 Randall has messed with this process by giving LSD ({{w|lysergic acid diethylamide}}) to the control group. LSD is a drug that causes hallucinations and distortions in the perception of time and space. [[Megan]], apparently a control, is experiencing spiders in her hallucinations. Since the control group is supposed to reflect what "normally" happens, this is indeed very confusing to the scientists. While hallucinating in the comic Megan is drawn as if she has six arms indicating that she's waving her arms. Though this also makes her look (together with her lower limbs) as if she has eight 'legs', in the manner of an actual spider.
 The scientists are confused. This may mean that, in the light of the unusual adverse events, they have executed the option of unblinding the study. This implies that the trial has (or is being) ended, as not being double-blinded itself impacts the veracity of a continuing study. In a properly double-blinded study, the scientists would not know Cueball or [[Megan]] was the control and would only dutifully record their observations. However, it may be equally confusing even if they don't yet know which cohorts either participant are members of (for all they know, these two are from the same one), as the treatment may or may not be creating hallucinations even as the non-treatment may or may not seem to clear up rashes.
 The title text suggests that, in a different study, this substitution was performed when the product being tested was itself LSD. This led to the conclusion that LSD is no more likely to cause hallucinations than the 'placebo', implying that LSD is not a significant hallucinogen.  We can only hope they were able to redo the test, as in layman's terms "Nonsense MUST be wrong". Randall could also have only sneaked placebo in as the 'LSD' element of the study, to get the same comparative effect, though (if checked) the difference between the ''whole'' cohorts, from each modified type of study, would be striking.

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 This is another comic in the [[:Category:My Hobby|My Hobby series]]. In a product experiment, two groups of people are given a certain pill or lotion. Some people are given the product to be tested, while others (the control group) are given a placebo; nobody is told which group they belong to. The control group acts as a norm for comparison against the others.
-Randall has messed with this process by giving LSD ({{w|lysergic acid diethylamide}}) to the control group. LSD is a drug that causes hallucinations and distortions in the perception of time and space. [[Megan]], apparently a control, is experiencing spiders in her hallucinations. Since the control group is supposed to reflect what "normally" happens, this is indeed very confusing to the scientists. While hallucinating in the comic Megan is drawn as if she has 6 arms indicating that she's waving her arms.
+Randall has messed with this process by giving LSD ({{w|lysergic acid diethylamide}}) to the control group. LSD is a drug that causes hallucinations and distortions in the perception of time and space. [[Megan]], apparently a control, is experiencing spiders in her hallucinations. Since the control group is supposed to reflect what "normally" happens, this is indeed very confusing to the scientists. While hallucinating in the comic Megan is drawn as if she has six arms indicating that she's waving her arms. Though this also makes her look (together with her lower limbs) as if she has eight 'legs', in the manner of an actual spider.
-However, given the scientists are confused, this means that they must know which person is in which group. This implies that the trial isn't double-blinded, which in and of itself would impact the veracity of the study. In a properly double-blinded study, the scientists would not know Cueball or [[Megan]] was the control and would only dutifully record their observations. (Alternatively, this is simply an unexpected result for either group.)
+The scientists are confused. This may mean that, in the light of the unusual adverse events, they have executed the option of unblinding the study. This implies that the trial has (or is being) ended, as not being double-blinded itself impacts the veracity of a continuing study. In a properly double-blinded study, the scientists would not know Cueball or [[Megan]] was the control and would only dutifully record their observations. However, it may be equally confusing even if they don't yet know which cohorts either participant are members of (for all they know, these two are from the same one), as the treatment may or may not be creating hallucinations even as the non-treatment may or may not seem to clear up rashes.
 The title text suggests that, in a different study, this substitution was performed when the product being tested was itself LSD. This led to the conclusion that LSD is no more likely to cause hallucinations than the 'placebo', implying that LSD is not a significant hallucinogen.  We can only hope they were able to redo the test, as in layman's terms "Nonsense MUST be wrong". Randall could also have only sneaked placebo in as the 'LSD' element of the study, to get the same comparative effect, though (if checked) the difference between the ''whole'' cohorts, from each modified type of study, would be striking.

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 However, given the scientists are confused, this means that they must know which person is in which group. This implies that the trial isn't double-blinded, which in and of itself would impact the veracity of the study. In a properly double-blinded study, the scientists would not know Cueball or [[Megan]] was the control and would only dutifully record their observations. (Alternatively, this is simply an unexpected result for either group.)
-The title text suggests that, in a different study, this substitution was performed when the product being tested was itself LSD. This led to the conclusion that LSD is no more likely to cause hallucinations than the 'placebo', implying that LSD is not a significant hallucinogen.  We can only hope they were able to redo the test, as in layman's terms "Nonsense MUST be wrong". Randall could also have only sneaked placebo in as the 'LSD' element of the study, to get the same comparative effect, though the difference between the ''whole'' cohorts between each modified type of study would be striking, if checked.
+The title text suggests that, in a different study, this substitution was performed when the product being tested was itself LSD. This led to the conclusion that LSD is no more likely to cause hallucinations than the 'placebo', implying that LSD is not a significant hallucinogen.  We can only hope they were able to redo the test, as in layman's terms "Nonsense MUST be wrong". Randall could also have only sneaked placebo in as the 'LSD' element of the study, to get the same comparative effect, though (if checked) the difference between the ''whole'' cohorts, from each modified type of study, would be striking.
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 | title     = Control
 | image     = control.png
-| titletext = [[File:Flag of the Soviet Union.svg]]Which, at one point, led to a study showing that LSD produces no more hallucinations than a placebo.
+| titletext = Which, at one point, led to a study showing that LSD produces no more hallucinations than a placebo.
 }}

790: Control - Revision history

76.126.7.124: /* Transcript */

76.126.7.124: /* Explanation */

2A00:23C6:5D52:7C01:4848:E9FF:FE57:78AF at 15:22, 26 November 2025

172.69.43.174: /* Explanation */ Just to give air to the (unlikely) possibility that the flailing arms *are* reduplicated ones. ;)

172.70.85.6: /* Explanation */ Depends upon protocol. These may even not be the study-administering folks, but the ones dealing with the aftercare.

172.70.175.62: /* Explanation */

Elektrizikekswerk: /* Explanation */ Removed alternative interpretation which is not "unlikely" but absurd. LSD doesn't do that

172.71.242.207: /* Explanation */

172.71.242.207: /* Explanation */

TheusafBOT: Reverted edit 336221 by 108.162.245.166 to 321406

172.69.43.174: /* Explanation / Just to give air to the (unlikely) possibility that the flailing arms are* reduplicated ones. ;)