Which of the following is NOT a method for trying to prevent a participant characteristic (such as age or gender) from becoming a confounding variable in a between-subjects experiment?
A) Hold the participant characteristic constant.
B) Randomly assign participants to treatment conditions.
C) Randomly select the participants from the population.
D) Match the groups with respect to the participant characteristic.
Answer: C) Randomly select the participants from the population.
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