Paloma Randomly Assigns Participants to Two Groups and Compares the Group

question 127

Multiple Choice

Paloma randomly assigns participants to two groups and compares the group that receives a treatment with the group that receives no treatment.The group that gets no treatment is the ________ group.

• A) variable
• B) confound
• C) experimental
• D) control

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