If You Wanted to Ensure That Any Differences Among Participants

question 490

Multiple Choice

If you wanted to ensure that any differences among participants in an experiment were as balanced as possible, you would use

• A)representative sampling
• B)random assignment
• C)placebos
• D)blind controls
• E)only two groups

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