Why Is It Important to Make Sure That Different Participant

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Multiple Choice

Why is it important to make sure that different participant groups are roughly equivalent in terms of personal characteristics (e.g. ,age,gender) before any independent variable is introduced?

• A)It is important to treat all research participants equally so that they feel that they are not being manipulated.
• B)Research ethics forbid any experiment to take place when the participant groups are fundamentally different from each other.
• C)It is important so that no major differences between the groups inadvertently bias the results of the experiment.
• D)Research ethics required all participants in a sample to have the same personal characteristics.

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