Control your Placebo or you will be double-blind!! :P

So, today and yesterday in class we had to find a double-blind study that caught our interest. Being a female of course I typed in "Double-blind, placebo women". Immediately, I found a topic that caught me eye it was a study to test a medicine for Schizophrenia in women. I first learned what a double-blind study was because I was completely clueless to what this study was. I had come to learn that in a double-blind study they have a variety of people some of which they give a sugar pill to and the rest the actual medicine. I thought to myself: "Why in pete's sake would they do that"? Well, i came to find that they did this so that the drug would be more effective to the people, the personnel's would get a point blank picture of how the drug worked and what effect it had on the patients. There is also many requirements you have to meet when you would like to participate in a double-blind study. In the study I was reading about the women had to have Schizophrenia and be the age of 40 years old. Thank goodness for the internet or else I would have never learned about a double-blind study!