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scenario
Nora would like to conduct an experiment to determine whether behavior modification techniques can help children eliminate bedwetting. She obtains a sample of children who wet the bed and randomly assigns half to the behavior modification therapy and half to a control group who receive no therapy. After six months, she measures how often children in each group wet the bed.
-Consider the following hypothesis: "If children undergo behavioral modification therapy, then they will have different rates of bedwetting than children in the control group." If this is Nora's hypothesis, then she should use a
Conclusions
Statements or judgments that are arrived at by reasoning from evidence or facts.
Experiment
A research method involving the manipulation of one or more independent variables to determine their effect on a dependent variable, within a controlled environment.
Control Group
A group in an experiment that does not receive the treatment and is used as a benchmark to measure how the other tested groups do.
Caffeine
A stimulant commonly found in coffee, tea, chocolate, and some medications, affecting the central nervous system.
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