Which Statement About Random Assignment Is TRUE

question 126

Multiple Choice

Which statement about random assignment is TRUE?

• A) The purpose of random assignment is to ensure that participants are unaware of the experimenter's hypothesis.
• B) The purpose of random assignment is to minimize differences in participants' characteristics across all conditions of an experiment.
• C) The purpose of random assignment is to allow the experimenter to generalize results to the relevant population.
• D) All of these statements are true.

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