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Control Group and Experimental Group

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In fact some scholars reserve the term experiment for study designs that include a control group. There is no other name for the experimental group. The Amoeba Sisters Teaching Biology Digital Science Fun Science A controlled experiment always includes at least one control group that doesnt receive the experimental treatment. . Its best to have a large sample size for the control group too. In contrast the control group is identical in every way to the experimental group except the independent variable is held constant. The control event rate CER is identical to the experimental event rate except that is measured within the scientific control group of an experiment. In these designs you usually compare one groups outcomes before and after a treatment instead of comparing. Many experiments are designed to include a control group and one or more experimental groups. A control group is a group in which the independent variabl...