The group on placebo pills showed improvements both at the half waypoint and at the end of the period, when compared with the no-treatment group.
相对于不做任何处理的那组,服用安慰剂的病人在第二周开始和结束时病情都有所好转。
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Test for agreement - after a short period of discussion it is useful to test to see if the team has reach a basic agreement (not always the final decision, sometimes just a waypoint).
Two volunteers cut off from the rest world for eight months stepped out on a mock-up of Mars on Monday, reaching the dramatic half-waypoint of their experimental "voyage" to the Red Planet.