A Researcher Tries to Make Sure That Subjects in the Experimental

question 131

Multiple Choice

A researcher tries to make sure that subjects in the experimental and control groups are very similar to each other in order to reduce the effects of

• A) extraneous variables.
• B) random variables.
• C) dependent variables.
• D) independent variables.

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