Surely in an experiment like this, the doses would have been pre-calculated and checked. So they knew exactly what they would be feeding them before the experiment even started.
Students 1 and 2 = 0.01g
Students 3 and 4 = 0.05g
Students 5 and 6 = 0.1g
Students 7 and 8 = 0.2g
Students 9 and 10 = 30g
Anyone spot the odd one out?
In the medical experiments where I was a lab rat, the entire protocol was always worked out in advance - except for the take two aspirins and pee occasionally in your plastic bottle for three hours experiment on aspirin metabolism. We ate our aspirins, and all sat watching videos, playing video games, snooker or reading magazines. And hearing stories from the two guys who had been on the early viagra tests, which had an unfortunate result on one poor guy for almost a week apparently, to earn our £30 (it was 15 years ago). Very relaxing. Until the nurse stormed in around the 2.5 hour mark and said "None of you lot have given a single pee sample yet! Drink a cup of water now or we will have no samples at all. And might not pay unless you have a piss soon!"
Two cups of water each and 15 minutes later there were queues at the cubicles - there were 40 or so of us that day.
Biting the hand that feeds IT
