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Watterson discusses an attempt made at Topeka to evaluate treatment; he is especially concerned with the problem of obtaining suitable controls. He believes that it is possible to arrange that neither therapist nor patient know what hypothesis is being tested in the treatment; this arrangement resembles a controlled experiment in which half the patients are given a drug, the other half a placebo, neither patients nor physicians knowing which patients receive the drug.