Random Assignment Controls for Important Differences Among Individual Participants by Balancing

question 206

Multiple Choice

Random assignment controls for important differences among individual participants by balancing them. This is in contrast to designs in which each participant is exposed to each condition or group in an experiment. This latter design controls the individual differences by _.

• A) balancing these differences between the conditions or groups
• B) randomly sampling them
• C) holding them constant
• D) controlling the placebo effect

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