Dr. Carter is designing a study where 50 people will get the experimental drug and 50 people will get the placebo. He will use a number program to assign the participants to one of the experimental groups. What is this practice called?
a. selective assignment
b. random assignment
c. determined assignment
d. confounding assignment
Answer: B: random assignment
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