Random Assignment of Participants to Conditions Has the Advantage Over

question 41

Multiple Choice

Random assignment of participants to conditions has the advantage over other methods of assignment in that:

• A) it places equal numbers of participants in each group.
• B) it ensures that each condition precedes and follows every other condition equally often.
• C) it controls for known confounding variables.
• D) it controls for both known and unknown confounding variables.

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