Mr. Smith creates a new sauce because he wants to increase his restaurant’s sales by creating a burger that reduces gas production. He recruits 100 customers with a history of gas problems. He has 50 of them eat burgers with the new sauce. The other 50 eat burgers with sauce that looks just like the new sauce, but it is really just a mixture of mayonnaise and food coloring. Both groups were told that they were getting the new sauce. Mr. Smith has all of the participants track their production of gas for 24 hours. Mr. Smith finds that customers who ate the new sauce had less gas production for 24 hours.
