Interactive demo

Randomization in action

Click Randomize to randomly assign 50 patients into two groups — and notice how their characteristics end up (almost) balanced, even though no one chose who goes where. That is the quiet engine behind every randomized controlled trial.

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Each circle is a patient. Colour shows symptom severity, the symbol shows sex, and a dashed border means a comorbidity is present.

High symptom severity
Low symptom severity
 Female
 Male
Has comorbidity
Therapy Group
Control group
Covariate balance after randomization