Dr. Abadia is studying the effects of being “trolled” on subsequent replies to posts. A randomly selected half of his subjects are trolled by someone posing as a member of the online group and the other half are not. The group that gets trolled is called the _____ group.

A. control
B. experimental
C. participant
D. concept


Answer: B

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