Dr. Clinton measures children's intelligence ahead of time and then assigns an equal number of high- and low-scoring children to each treatment condition. Dr. Clinton is using
A) a confounding variable.
B) matching.
C) a natural, or quasi-, experiment.
D) random assignment.
B
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