A researcher designs an experiment with two groups. She decides to randomly assign participants by first dividing participants based on gender. She then randomly assigns the males by having them pull a number out of a hat, and then does the same for the females. What type of random assignment is this?
A. simple random assignment
B. stratified random assignment
C. matched random assignment
D. random assignment to order of conditions
Ans: B
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