Matching Question 26 options: Subjects exposed to a special treatment. Educated speculation about what will be discovered from the researcher. Subjects who receive a placebo or no treatment. A sugar pill or other benign substance given to a control group when another group is given the treatment that the researcher wishes to explore. Observations compiled by researcher. The characteristics of interest concerning a targeted population. 1. Experimental Group 2. Data 3. Question 4. Placebo 5. Control Group 6. Hypothesis