Johnson is hired by a company to see if a new product, Topocal, will cause hair to grow on the heads of bald men. He recruits one thousand bald men and randomly divides them into two groups: Five hundred men (group A) rub Topocal on their scalps each day; the other five hundred (group B) rub a standard skin lotion on their scalps each day. After two months, Johnson checks to see what the results have been. He finds that there has been hair growth in 7 percent of group A and in 2 percent of group B.If there is a control group here, it is
A. the bald men who participated in the study.
B. bald men in general.
C. there is no control group in this study.
D. the men in group B.
E. the men in group A.
Answer: D
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