The Procedure Which Guarantees That All Participants in an Experiment

question 133

Multiple Choice

The procedure which guarantees that all participants in an experiment have an equal chance of being assigned to any of the groups is referred to as

• A) unbiased sampling.
• B) selection bias.
• C) matched samples.
• D) random assignment.

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