If the experimental and control groups are treated differently from one another, other
than with respect to the independent variable, the experimental results may be impossible
to explain.
This sort of differential treatment, usually unintentional, is called
(a) correlational treatment (b) the dependent variable
(c) confounding (d) regression
C
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