The Advantage of Randomly Assigning Participants to the Experimental Group

Multiple Choice

The advantage of randomly assigning participants to the experimental group and the control group is that random assignment

A) guarantees that participants will know what is expected of them in the experiment.
B) avoids the need to perform statistical tests on the results.
C) eliminates or reduces the influence of independent variables.
D) reduces the possibility that the groups differ greatly at the start of the experiment.