Ecologists Try to Reduce the Likelihood That Variables That Are

question 53

Multiple Choice

Ecologists try to reduce the likelihood that variables that are not under the control of the experimenter will unduly influence the results of an experiment by

• A) replicating each treatment, including the control.
• B) assigning treatments to subjects or plots methodically.
• C) never performing the same experiment twice, but trying instead to improve each experiment.
• D) carefully setting up experiments so that the results are identical and do not need to be statistically analyzed to prove the result.

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