Dr. Manquero forms the hypothesis that ingesting chocolate prior to an exam will improve exam performance. She gives half of her participants chocolate and the other half gum. She then gives the participants an exam. In this experiment, what is the best way to divide the participants into groups?
a. Make sure that each group wants to eat the chocolate or chew the gum.
b. How the groups are formed doesn't matter.
c. Have all males in one group and all females in the other.
d. Use random assignment.
D
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