Every Participant in an Experiment Has an Equal Chance of Receiving

question 127

Multiple Choice

Every participant in an experiment has an equal chance of receiving one of the treatments. This is called

• A)control assignment.
• B)random selection.
• C)a placebo effect.
• D)random assignment.
• E)control selection.

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