Which of the following is NOT a way of controlling extraneous variance?

A) random assignment of participants
B) building potential confounding variables into the experiment as an additional independent variable
C) eliminating confounding variables by selecting participants who are as homogeneous as possible on that variable
D) ad hoc sampling


Answer: D

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