If Participants in the Experiment Group of a Drug Treatment

question 156

Multiple Choice

If participants in the experiment group of a drug treatment study are much younger than participants in the control group, the age of the research participants is a

• A) dependent variable.
• B) correlation coefficient.
• C) confounding variable.
• D) standard deviation.

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