Which of the following is NOT a basic requirement for a researcher?
a. randomly assigning participants into control and experimental groups
b. conducting a pretest and a posttest to measure the expected areas of change
c. protecting findings from other external explanations
d. predicting the hypothesis
Ans: D
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