Answer:
The control group is the group that takes the sugar pill
Step-by-step explanation:
In drug testing, to determine the efficacy of a drug, different groups of experimental subjects are recruited, one group is given the drug to be tested (treatment group) while another group is given a placebo.
A placebo is a fake version of the drug to be tested that does not have any therapeutic effect on the test subjects that receive it. In this case, the control group receives the placebo which is the sugar pill. They serve as the baseline of measurement when the outcome of the effect of the drug testing is done. The groups that received the actual drugs are compared against the groups that received the hoax treatment, and any change occuring in the test subjects become the changes occuring as a result of the test drug used, when the observations on the control group has been ruled out.
