Why Do Researchers Randomly Assign Participants to Conditions

question 36

Multiple Choice

Why do researchers randomly assign participants to conditions?

• A) to control extraneous variables
• B) to ensure that they find a strong statistical relationship between the independent variable and the dependent variable
• C) to discover whether there is a placebo effect
• D) to avoid fatigue effects

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