A Natural Experiment Is an Empirical Study ________

question 49

Multiple Choice

A natural experiment is an empirical study ________.

• A) in which the predictions of the model are not required to be tested with data
• B) that can only be used to understand natural phenomena and is widely used in subjects such as physics and biology
• C) in which the researcher assigns subjects to the control and treatment groups to verify a cause-effect relationship
• D) in which some process, outside the control of the experimenter, has assigned subjects to the control and treatment groups in a random or nearly random way

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